The European Court of Justice on Friday ordered Poland to immediately suspend its lowering of the mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court judges.  While a former hearing with the Court of Justice is already scheduled, the court demands that the suspension go into effect that the judges continue on in their positions during the interim. In April Poland lowered [...]

The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, led by Justice Rita Makarau, on Wednesday struck down section 27 of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) giving authorities power ban public demonstrations, as unconstitutional. The section allows for the authorities in an area to prohibit demonstrations if they “believe[] on reasonable grounds that there might be public [...]

The Supreme Court of the Maldives on Thursday overturned the prison term for the country’s former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The Maldives Criminal Court had convicted Gayoom in June of obstruction of justice for refusing to turn his cellphone over to police during an investigation into his involvement with a plan to overthrow the government. [...]

La Segunda Sala Penal de Peru on Wednesday ordered the release of former Peruvian presidential candidate and opposition party leader Keiko Fujimori, following her arrest last week in an ongoing money laundering investigation. Keiko Fujimori is the daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. She is still under investigation over undeclared contributions made to her [...]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the US withdrawal from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) as a retaliation against China and other foreign nations that “undermine the goal of unrestricted and undistorted competition in cross-border delivery services.” The UPU, conceived in 1873 by the US and four other countries, acts as a regulatory body [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, said Wednesday that Israel’s planned demolition of Bedouin village Khan al-Amar in the West Bank could constitute a war crime. “Evacuation by force now appears imminent,” she said. “It bears recalling, as a general matter, that extensive destruction of property without military necessity and population transfers in [...]

Australia’s proposed cybersecurity bill is “fatally flawed” and should be dropped, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy said Thursday. The expert stated that it was “a poorly conceived national security measure equally as likely to endanger security as not.” The proposed legislation would force tech companies “to help spy on citizens in [...]

The World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN Women issued a joint statement Wednesday calling on governments, health professionals and communities to take steps to end the practice of “virginity testing.” After a comprehensive systematic review of “virginity testing,” the practice of examining women to determine whether [...]

Civilians in the Western Equatoria region of South Sudan are facing extreme human rights abuses, according to a UN report released Thursday. Between April and August, there were reported attacks against villages and civilians, causing 24,000 people to leave their homes. The UN alleges that these attacks were perpetrated by the pro-Riek Machar Sudan People’s [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration is urging Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to stop the Honduran “caravan” that has accumulated thousands more migrants while making the trek through South and Central America to the US border, saying the US will cut off aid to the countries if the immigrants make it to the US border. Honduran migrants began [...]