An attempt by Malaysia’s lower house of parliament to repeal a law against “fake news” was blocked by an opposition-run Senate vote on Wednesday. The vote from the upper house is the first major challenge against Malaysia’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. Mohamad, who was elected earlier this year, conducted large changes to the [...]
UN investigators released a report on Wednesday detailing the use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces during an ongoing civil war, which has contributed to the displacement of more than one million civilians in six months. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic documented multiple war crimes by the Syrian government, [...]
EU President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday announced the proposal of new rules for requiring the removal of terrorist content from the internet within one hour. The one-hour rule would require that the content be removed within one hour of receiving a removal notification from national competent authorities. Failure to remove content within the hour can [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) stated Tuesday that it will continue its investigation into potential war crimes in Afghanistan despite threats from the Trump administration on Monday. On Monday, John Bolton, a national security advisor to the Trump administration, stated that the US would use any means necessary to protect both their citizens and their [...]
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday refused to retry a 1978 case regarding the torture of Irish “hooded men.” In 1971 14 men affiliated with the IRA were arrested and allegedly subject to inhumane interrogation methods inside the Ulster Constabulary. In 1976 the Irish government took the men’s cause [...]
The recent prosecutions of journalists in Myanmar have had the effect of self-censorship , according to a UN report released Tuesday examining freedom of the press in Myanmar. The report dissects the freedom of the press in Myanmar since the National League for Democracy (NLD) came into power and the effects it has had on [...]
A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed concern regarding Hungary’s new immigration measures. Hungary adopted legislation in July that further restricts asylum claims and criminalizes “supporting and facilitating illegal immigration.” The experts have observed that, as a result of the legislation, “hreats against human rights defenders in Hungary are now regular and [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held Tuesday that a Catholic-run German hospital was discriminatory in its dismissal of a Catholic doctor that had recently remarried. The head doctor of the clinic lost his job at the Catholic St. Vinzenz Hospital in Düsseldorf in 2009 after divorcing his wife and subsequently marrying a new partner in [...]
The Superior Court of Justice of Ontario ruled Monday that the Better Local Government Act, 2018 , which decreased the number of city wards and councilors in Toronto from 47 to 25, was unconstitutional. The law was enacted on August 14 and took effect immediately. The election period for the city had begun on May 1, [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday criticized the confirmation of 75 deaths sentences by the Cairo Criminal Court in Egypt, deeming the cdecision “a gross and irreversible miscarriage of justice.” According to rights groups, the sentences are part of an unprecedented crackdown by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi‘s government, who promised during his [...]
