The Australian government on Thursday enacted a new law banning the display of hate symbols and mandating minimum sentences for certain terror offenses, as part of a broader effort to curb a surge in antisemitism across the country. The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 targets the most extreme types of damaging hate speech, [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday for what it called their failure to uphold accountability and due process in the 2009 extrajudicial killing of investigative journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, urging decisive action to end the country’s “alarming record of impunity” in journalist killings. CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih Yi denounced [...]
Judge John Coughenour of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington granted a nationwide preliminary injunction Thursday blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship and accused the president of ignoring the rule of law for his own gain. In remarks in the courtroom, Coughenour said, “It has become [...]
The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Tomoko Akane, on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump’s executive order of the previous day that imposed sanctions on the court’s staff. The order follows the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, which the US [...]
Two bereaved families filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday, claiming that the UK government’s bereavement support policy is discriminatory. Leigh Day, the law firm representing the families, said the government’s cut-off date for Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) eligibility is “arbitrary” and discriminates against unmarried, cohabitating partners and their [...]
UN experts on Friday expressed deep concern over the US government’s decision to reinstate Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT), stating that the decision will have a devastating impact on the human rights of vulnerable groups in Cuba. The independent UN experts referred back to their previous communications in which they raised concerns about [...]
The Coroner’s Court in Northern Ireland ruled on Thursday that the use of lethal force by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in 1992 was “not justified.” The incident resulted in the killing of four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The judgment found that the SAS, a specialist British military force, did not [...]
Two major US federal employee unions filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Donald Trump’s systematic dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which the complaint claims has triggered a global humanitarian crisis. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, USAID had served as America’s primary foreign assistance organization for over six decades. [...]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant. The order imposes significant sanctions on ICC officials and their immediate families. Such sanctions include the blocking of property and assets as well as suspension [...]
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, joined by 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute some $75 billion to a fund to pay for damages caused by climate change. McCuskey stated that Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce through the Commerce Clause, and [...]
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