The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday ruled unanimously that a partial privative clause cannot bar judicial review on questions of fact and law. It held that judicial review on such questions is the courts’ “core supervisory jurisdiction” guaranteed by the Constitution. Chief Justice Richard Wagner, writing for the bench, held that Canada’s Constitution Act, [...]

Amnesty International urged authorities in Ecuador on Wednesday to implement a court ruling mandating the elimination of oil industry gas flares near populated areas in the Amazon and the provision of reparations to affected communities. The organization stated that while five years have passed since the ruling was issued, Ecuadorian authorities have failed to implement [...]

United Nations experts on Tuesday warned that 20 years after the Probo Koala toxic waste disaster in Côte d’Ivoire, thousands of victims still remain without justice, compensation, or effective remedies, highlighting what they call “environmental racism” and corporate impunity. In August 2006, the MV Probo Koala, chartered by commodity trading company Trafigura, offloaded toxic waste [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Shell plc to answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta following release of a report detailing how Shell oil pollution has damaged water, farmland, fisheries, health and livelihoods, while the company continued to profit and deny responsibility. The report, titled “Nigeria: Lifting the Lid: Internal documents expose [...]

British Labour MP Jess Asato on Tuesday filed a request for a court order barring xAI’s Grok chatbot from generating non-consensual sexualized images of her, arguing that the chatbot completely strips women of their personal autonomy by allowing users to digitally manipulate their images without consent. She first filed the claim in June alleging that [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that Perenco, the sole oil producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is ausing in production methods that pose grave health and environmental threats to local communities. HRW Central Africa director Lewis Mudge stated: “The Congolese government transparency on oil pollution levels to meet its obligations to [...]

Ousted South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday was sentenced to a suspended 18-month prison sentence by the Seoul Central District Court for lying during his 2022 campaign. Yoon was indicted over misrepresenting his connections to a fortune teller, who had connections to the controversial Unification Church, as well as lying about his connections [...]

The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela called on the Venezuelan government Monday to reverse its decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), warning that leaving the ICC would weaken accountability for serious human rights violations and limit victims’ access to justice. The Venezuelan [...]

A UN expert warned on Tuesday that policies on border protection and migration cannot nullify the absolute ban on returning a person to torture as set out in international law. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, published a position paper on the principle [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday expressed concerns that the mass destruction and displacement caused by Israeli strikes against Lebanon could amount to international crimes. Türk spent two days in Lebanon documenting the effects of the regional war on Lebanese citizens and concluded the trip with a press conference detailing his findings. While [...]