Articles Tagged with China

A group of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to declare that a key tool President Donald Trump’s administration has relied on to cancel federal grants is being used unlawfully. The complaint said that the states have lost billions of dollars for crime prevention, education, medical and scientific [...]

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Tuesday said that Serbia needs to take further action to “protect people deprived of their liberty from torture and ill-treatment.” During a week-long mission to Serbia, the SPT visited prisons, police cells, remand centers and homes for the elderly and children. The delegation also conducted interviews [...]

Hong Kong Deputy High Court Judge Frankie Yiu refused to grant leave for a constitutional challenge against a provision criminalizing the incitement of casting invalid votes. In the judgment issued Tuesday, Judge Yiu ruled that the challenge is not reasonably arguable because the provision is necessary to improve the electoral framework. The impugned provision is [...]

The Hong Kong Legislative Council passed a law on Wednesday that bans anyone convicted of a national security offense from forming or holding a leadership position within a union. The new law amends the Trade Union Ordinance, introducing a lifetime ban on union organizing for national security offenders. This includes both holding a leadership position [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the international community to address escalating violence and human rights abuses in Haiti, noting that conditions have been steadily deteriorating one year after the deployment of the first personnel under the UN-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission. In light of the inability of the Haitian National Police (HNP) to [...]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced on Tuesday that the recent killing of Palestinians trying to receive food from aid hubs may constitute a war crime, warning of a policy of “weaponized hunger” in the Gaza Strip. Jonathan Whittall, the head of the United Nations Office for the [...]

A federal judge in California issued a landmark ruling on Monday in one of the first major court decisions addressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and copyright law. In a mixed ruling, the court found that training large language AI models (LLMs) on copyrighted books is legal under the doctrine of fair use, while also holding [...]

The German Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled on Tuesday in favor of lifting the ban on the right-wing Compact magazine. In the court’s view, although Compact’s articles and overall coverage present anti-constitutional ideals, the threshold to uphold a ban was not met. A ban against an association can be imposed under Article 9(2)(2) of [...]

The UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran and Special Rapporteur on Iran on Monday jointly called for the protection of civilians and respect for international law following days of Israeli airstrikes. The statement pressed the Iranian government to take more steps to protect civilians from armed attacks. It highlighted the absence of effective warning systems and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday expressed concern over an Islamic State-linked group abducting increasing numbers of children in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. According to HRW, the armed group, locally known as Al-Shabab, has kidnapped at least 120 children in recent days. Although some children were released by the group, a number of them remain [...]