Foreign ministers from Ukraine, the UK, and several European states on Friday announced their support for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The countries include at least 37 states in addition to Ukraine. These states will have the power to hold accountable Russian political [...]
The European Commission on Tuesday referred Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failing to comply with EU law regarding penalties for migrant smuggling. The case concerns Hungary’s Decree 148/2023, adopted in April 2023. The law allows people convicted of migrant smuggling to leave prison early and serve the rest [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday documenting a steady erosion of press independence in Greece since the New Democracy administration entered office in July 2019. Based on interviews with 34 journalists, academics, legal experts, and civil society figures, the report details a range of tactics used to intimidate and silence critical reporting. [...]
A group of 31 legal scholars from various European universities on Friday criticized the European Union’s proposal to reform corporate sustainability regulations, known as the Omnibus Simplification Package. The signatories expressed concerns that the proposed reform would undermine the clarity of the European corporate sustainability rules and lead to an increase in climate-related lawsuits against [...]
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s order directing the Wikimedia Foundation to remove a page detailing a defamation lawsuit filed by Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI), upholding the fundamental right to free speech under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution and public scrutiny. A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice [...]
United Nations human rights experts urged on Wednesday that the international community must act immediately to end the intensifying violence in Gaza. The experts stated that since the end of the ceasefire, which started on January 19 and ended on March 18, there have been yet harsher attacks on the population in Gaza: “Escalating atrocities [...]
The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s armed conflict in the 1980s. The ruling marks a landmark decision that addresses the transgenerational impact of state-led human rights violations. The case was brought in [...]
A panel of three US federal judges struck down a 2023 Alabama congressional map on Thursday, stating that the map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The permanent injunction comes after a long process of appeals beginning back in 2021, when the plaintiffs, a [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged Israeli authorities on Wednesday to halt their plans for military expansion into Gaza, warning that the new operation could seriously threaten the rights and existence of Palestinians in the strip. He also stated that Israel’s expanded offensive may imply violations of international humanitarian and human rights [...]
US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was previously removed to El Salvador in March in defiance of a federal court order, has been returned to the US and is now facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee indicted Abrego Garcia [...]
