The Court of Justice of the EU issued an order for the immediate suspension of Poland’s Disciplinary Chamber Wednesday. The Disciplinary Chamber was created within the Supreme Court of Poland by the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) in 2017. The chamber has the power to punish judges through a variety of disciplinary actions, including [...]

Ecuador’s Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday that former president Rafael Correa had been sentenced in absentia for corruption. The former president, as well as several other defendants, was found guilty of corruption for accepting bribes. The sentence calls for eight years in prison as well as a 25-year ban on political activities, including running for [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that the Afghan government should bring war crime charges against captured militant leader Aslam Farooqi for his alleged role in directing attacks against civilians in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security, announced on Saturday that they had arrested Farooqi. Farooqi is the leader of the Islamic State [...]

The South African National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), South Africa’s main healthcare workers’ union, filed court papers against the Minister of Health and Department of Health Tuesday over a lack of compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993. NEHAWU claims that the Department of Health is failing to provide [...]

During a Coronavirus Taskforce press briefing on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump announced that the US could withhold funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Trump first criticized the organization for “disagree with travel ban.” He then suggested that WHO “could have called months earlier … and should have known .” Then the president suggested [...]

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) found in a decision released Monday that Peru owed damages to Azul Rojas Martin, a transgender woman who was imprisoned and tortured by Peruvian authorities. Rojas Martin was detained by authorities in February 2008 striped of her clothes and beat as authorities screamed and insulted her for being [...]

The UN released a summary Monday of an inquiry into 2019 attacks and bombings on Syrian hospitals, schools and refugee camps, stopping short of blaming Russia. Many of the attacks were targeted airstrikes on locations providing humanitarian aid to those affected by the Syria conflict. The report heavily implicated the government of Syria and its [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Sunday for a “ceasefire” in domestic violence, after a recent surge following global COVID-19 lockdowns. “Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for COVID-19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes,” Guterres tweeted. “I urge all governments to put women’s safety [...]

Australia’s High Court overturned Catholic Cardinal George Pell’s sexual abuse convictions Tuesday. Australian authorities have released Pell from custody. In March 2019 a unanimous jury convicted Pell of abusing two choir boys in the 1990s. The Australian trial court sentenced Pell to six years in prison. Pell maintained an innocent plea throughout the trial. After [...]

The US Department of State on Monday designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as global terrorists, the first time that the department has designated a racially or ethnically motivated terrorist group. RIM is a terrorist group that provides paramilitary-style training to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and it plays a prominent role in trying to rally [...]