The Paris police department banned a planned protest against police violence on Saturday. This came after a series of protests over the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old North African boy, Nahel Merzouk on June 27, which have evolved into a civil movement similar to the Black Lives Matter protests in the US. Assa Traoré, [...]

Save the Children called attention Friday to an “alarming” wave of rape and abduction in Sudan targeting women and girls as young as 12, as the conflict in the country continues to escalate. The United Nations has also reported a marked increase in gender-based violence, exposing the dark reality of the war that erupted on [...]

A group of United Nations (UN) human rights experts called on the Russian Federation on Friday to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of a violent attack against journalist Yelena Milashina and human rights lawyer Alexander Nemov. The incident occurred on July 4 in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Milashina was covering and Nemov [...]

A District of Columbia (DC) Bar Association Disciplinary committee released a report Friday recommending that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be disbarred and prevented from practicing law due to his involvement in lawsuits attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani was Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, a 2008 presidential candidate, a [...]

The US announced Friday it would provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, despite a Thursday plea from Human Rights Watch (HRW) for both Russia and Ukraine to cease their use of the deadly weapons. In a White House press briefing Friday, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stressed that the US deferred the decision for as [...]

A Royal Commission into Australia’s Robodebt scheme has referred several government officials for civil and criminal prosecution after handing down its final report on Friday. The inquiry included 46 days of hearings, received over 1000 submissions and heard from 115 witnesses regarding the unlawful scheme. The report contains an “additional sealed chapter that is not [...]

Irish barristers have scheduled another in a series of protests regarding pay in relation to Criminal Legal Aid cases. The campaign, entitled “A Celebration of Failure 2” will take place outside the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin on July 14. The purpose of this event, which follows similar demonstrations in March and April 2022, [...]

Three non-governmental organizations filed for a judicial review claim on Friday against the UK government over its revised climate change strategy. The organizations seek to challenge the lawfulness of the government’s new plans, claiming they are “inadequate” to address the threat of climate change. Environmental and legal organizations Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and [...]

The UK High Court of Justice held Thursday that the Cabinet Office must hand over all documents Covid-19 Inquiry chair Baroness Heather Hallett requests, including former prime minister Boris Johnson’s diaries and WhatsApp messages. The Cabinet Office launched a judicial review case against Hallett’s request last week. While Hallett argued she should determine which documents [...]

The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong unanimously voted to support a bill that overhauls the city’s district councils on Thursday, which will dramatically reduce the number of directly elected seats on district councils. Under a 2021 change to Hong Kong’s election law, the district councils served as one of the last ways for Hong [...]