The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a disability-rights appeal brought on behalf of a student and her parents against their school district, alleging their child did not receive fair accommodations for her disability. The case, AJT v. Osseo Area Schools, No. 24-249, weighs whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday reassuring the US civil society groups of the human rights group’s solidarity amidst Trump administration funding cuts. The human rights group highlighted that the funding cuts are “not a policy shift, but a direct and unjustifiable attack on the work of many important organizations.” The statement underlined [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Tuesday that the Republic of Malta’s “golden passport” program, where foreign investors could apply to be naturalized as a Maltese citizen for making direct investments, amounted to the commercialization of EU citizenship. This was found to be a violation of Malta’s obligations under Article [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Jordanian authorities forcibly evicted and demolished residences in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without following proper procedures, as part of an urban development project. The project’s stated goals include improving living conditions, managing urban growth, and recovering the costs of upgrading and expanding infrastructure facilities through [...]
The European Court of Human Rights refused Tuesday to hear an unlawful detention claim against Italy, finding that the applicant has not exhausted all available and effective domestic remedies. The applicant argued that Italy violated his right to liberty under Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Ruling in favor of Italy, the [...]
Human rights groups on Monday urged the Liberian president should renew his executive order to establish a war crimes court for crimes committed in the two Liberian civil wars. Adama Dempster, the secretary-general of the Civil Society Human Rights Platform of Liberia, demanded the establishment of a war crimes court, stating: Liberia’s quest to bring [...]
Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday highlighting a general decline in human rights around the globe since Donald Trump took office, due to a rise of authoritarianism and corporate greed emboldened by the Trump administration’s policies. The organization noted both positive and negative trends in the sphere of international justice, applauding the enforcement of [...]
Human Rights Watch issued an report on “killer robots,” automated AI weapons which can kill people without human instruction or oversight, ahead of the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons systems in New York. HRW noted “the call, supported by at least 129 countries, for the urgent negotiation and adoption of a [...]
The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) launched the Victims of Terrorism Associations Network (VoTAN) on Monday. A key outcome of the first United Nations Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism, the initiative seeks to foster stronger collaboration among victims’ associations worldwide, enhance advocacy, and ensure that victims’ rights and needs are at the center of counter-terrorism [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday strongly condemned the 11-hour detention and potential prosecution of two journalists in Macao, calling the move a “disturbing escalation” in the ongoing suppression of independent journalism in China’s special administrative region. According to the news outlet All About Macau, the two reporters were detained for 11 hours [...]
