The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) on Friday released a statement defending the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the announcement of a campaign by the United States Department of State that seeks to paralyze and ultimately dissolve the Court. The network reiterated that the ICC, created by the 2002 Rome Statute, is an independent [...]
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday a new visa restriction policy barring foreign nationals affiliated with what the administration describes as “far-left terrorist” organizations from entering the US. The policy targets foreign nationals who have engaged in or materially supported acts of terrorism, violent crime, economic sabotage, or assisted far-left networks with any [...]
UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged the UK government to review and re-sentence people still subject to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in England and Wales, warning that indefinite detention is causing severe psychological harm, self-harm, and an increased risk of suicide. The experts said about 2,400 people remain under the IPP system, even [...]
Two US-based advocacy groups sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, alleging that sanctions imposed by Trump on members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN impede the organizations’ ability to engage in Palestinian-related human rights advocacy and therefore violate their First Amendment rights. The sanctions in question stem from a 2025 Executive [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday released a joint report documenting deaths, beatings, medical neglect, and conditions that may amount to enforced disappearance at the immigration detention camp at the US Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The 84-page report, titled “You’re Only Getting Out Deported or [...]
Argentina protested against a UK vessel, HMS Medway, for its allegedly illegal approach to the Falkland Islands through Argentina’s territorial water, in a Thursday post on X (formerly Twitter) by its Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno. The post came after Argentina’s national team displayed a controversial slogan relating to the territory at the end of its [...]
The Reparations Committee of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met with Church of England clergy and British parliamentarians on Tuesday to discuss reparations for slavery. In their attempt to move from public advocacy to formal negotiations, CARICOM scheduled a visit to the UK from July 13 to July 16 to demand more than the previous apologies [...]
A US federal court on Tuesday closed a school desegregation lawsuit originally filed in 1965, effectively ending a decades-long mandate for federal oversight of school desegregation in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The case, Smith v. Concordia Parish School Board, was brought 11 years after the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education took effect. Private [...]
Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Tuesday that the Court may exercise jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri. El Hishri is alleged to have been a senior official of the armed group known as the Special Deterrence Force. He is charged with 17 counts [...]
The UN Human Rights Office stated on Wednesday that Sudan’s war economy is contributing to sustaining the ongoing armed conflict between Sudanese military forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), through the trade of various Sudanese commodities, including gum arabic, one of the country’s main exports. In addition to external military support and weapons supply, [...]
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