A Ukrainian court on Thursday sentenced former president Viktor Yanukovych to 13 years in prison after finding him guilty of treason for a 2014 crackdown on pro-Western demonstrations. In 2014 Yanukovych spiked an association agreement with the EU in favor of retaining close ties with Russia. This sparked massive protests and police crackdown that killed [...]

Activists and victims of war crimes in Nepal have urged the government to not proceed with proposed amendments to a law that governs the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The twin probes are supposed to “investigate the facts about those involved in gross violations of [...]

The Greek Parliament voted 153-146 Friday to ratify an agreement to rename Macedonia. The approval renames Greece’s northern neighbor the “Republic of North Macedonia,” and essentially clears a path for the country to join NATO, and possibly the EU. This agreement comes after months of intense street protests in both countries. Greece has historically held that by using [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Friday for investigations into violence including deaths during protests in Venezuela. On Wednesday, leader of the opposition and National Assembly head, Juan Guaido, declared himself acting president of Venezuela. On the same day, US President Donald Trump released a statement recognizing Guaido as Interim President of [...]

Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that several articles of the Iraq National Oil Company Law were unconstitutional. The law is meant to establish the Iraq National Oil Company as a public company owned by the state for oil and gas production and development. The unconstitutional articles related to the objectives of the company and the [...]

The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that there had been numerous violations of human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights during the Amanda Knox investigation, ordering Italy to provide financial damages. Knox was accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Italy. The charges [...]

Alberto Fujimori returned to prison Wednesday to finish out the remaining 13 years of his 25-year sentence for human rights crimes. Fujimori, former president of Peru, has been in prison since 2009 for human rights crimes committed by death squads under his regime. Fujimori was pardoned for his health in 2017 by former president Pedro [...]

Central African Republic (CAR) militia leader Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona is set to appear before the International Criminal Court on Friday after he was transferred to the court from France on Wednesday. Ngaïssona rose to prominence as a football official in the CAR and eventually became a board member of the Confederation of African Football. Ngaïssona has [...]

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) proposed a bill on Wednesday aimed at incorporating the People’s Republic of China’s National Anthem Law  into Hong Kong’s regional law by means of local legislation rather than “promulgation.” The bill, as well as the original order is meant to “preserve the dignity” of the anthem of the People’s Republic [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday expressed her serious concern that the approval of an amendment to Guatemala’s long-standing National Reconciliation Law would result in complete immunity for all cases of grave human rights violations. Guatemala’s National Reconciliation Law has been in force since 1996 and was crucial to ending 36 [...]