Amnesty International called on the US and other governments Thursday to secure funding to support education in Myanmar following the removal of USAID programs that are vital for students and teachers in the war-affected country. The organization reports that the reduction in foreign aid is already having a severe impact on learners and warns of [...]
The attorneys general for 15 US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday over the president’s executive order declaring that the US is in a national energy emergency. Executive Order No. 14,156, titled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” was signed by Trump on his first day in office. The order directed agencies to utilize [...]
Foreign ministers from Ukraine, the UK, and several European states on Friday announced their support for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The countries include at least 37 states in addition to Ukraine. These states will have the power to hold accountable Russian political [...]
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 [...]
A panel of three US federal judges struck down a 2023 Alabama congressional map on Thursday, stating that the map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The permanent injunction comes after a long process of appeals beginning back in 2021, when the plaintiffs, a [...]
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