The European Commission on Tuesday referred Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failing to comply with EU law regarding penalties for migrant smuggling. The case concerns Hungary’s Decree 148/2023, adopted in April 2023. The law allows people convicted of migrant smuggling to leave prison early and serve the rest [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday documenting a steady erosion of press independence in Greece since the New Democracy administration entered office in July 2019. Based on interviews with 34 journalists, academics, legal experts, and civil society figures, the report details a range of tactics used to intimidate and silence critical reporting. [...]
A group of 31 legal scholars from various European universities on Friday criticized the European Union’s proposal to reform corporate sustainability regulations, known as the Omnibus Simplification Package. The signatories expressed concerns that the proposed reform would undermine the clarity of the European corporate sustainability rules and lead to an increase in climate-related lawsuits against [...]
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s order directing the Wikimedia Foundation to remove a page detailing a defamation lawsuit filed by Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI), upholding the fundamental right to free speech under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution and public scrutiny. A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice [...]
United Nations human rights experts urged on Wednesday that the international community must act immediately to end the intensifying violence in Gaza. The experts stated that since the end of the ceasefire, which started on January 19 and ended on March 18, there have been yet harsher attacks on the population in Gaza: “Escalating atrocities [...]
The UN Human Rights Committee found Thursday that Guatemala is responsible for violating the rights of multiple generations of Mayan Indigenous peoples who were forcibly displaced during the country’s armed conflict in the 1980s. The ruling marks a landmark decision that addresses the transgenerational impact of state-led human rights violations. The case was brought in [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged Israeli authorities on Wednesday to halt their plans for military expansion into Gaza, warning that the new operation could seriously threaten the rights and existence of Palestinians in the strip. He also stated that Israel’s expanded offensive may imply violations of international humanitarian and human rights [...]
A UN official raised concerns on Wednesday over North Korea’s “troubling pattern” of weapons testing, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and intermediate-range hypersonic missiles. UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari warned that the persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs defies international law and “continue to undermine the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.” [...]
UN humanitarian personnel called for an end to the “brutal” conflict in Sudan on Wednesday as drone strikes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) increased. The UN urged an immediate cessation of hostilities and all measures to protect civilians and infrastructure in accordance with international humanitarian law. Echoing [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alerted the public on Tuesday of a second case of spyware attack on a journalist and urged Italian authorities to investigate. CPJ’s Europe representative, Attila Mong, criticized the targeting of journalists and categorized it as “a pattern of surveillance aimed at intimidating and silencing investigative reporting.” Mong recognized these [...]
