The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday commenced advisory opinion hearings on the right to strike under International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 87. The court will advise as to whether workers and their organizations have a right to strike under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948 [...]
A coalition of labor unions, nonprofit organizations and solar companies filed suit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the agency’s termination of the $7 billion Solar for All program. The suit claims that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin exceeded statutory authority when he withdrew program funding in August. Plaintiffs argued that Congress only permitted [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the release of 75-year-old Adama Keita, the father of Guinean journalist Maoudou Babila Keita, who was abducted by unknown people in Nzérékoré on September 29, more than a year after Babila fled the country following an attempted kidnapping. According to CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative: The circumstances [...]
Amnesty International on Monday urged Singaporean authorities to immediately halt the execution of Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, scheduled for Wednesday, October 8. The Malaysian national has been on death row since 2017 for importing 51.84 grams of diamorphine (heroin) into Singapore. Condemning the practice of mandatory death penalties for drug-related offenses as well as “multiple layers [...]
Eleven individuals, deported from the US to Ghana last month, filed a lawsuit against the Ghana government, alleging that they were illegally held in a military detention camp. The legal action reflects the chaotic fallout following the deportations, which have resulted in deportees being scattered and “dumped” into neighboring African countries. The deportees are of [...]
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration on Monday seeking to enjoin the deployment of National Guard troops. “These advances in President Trump’s long-declared ‘War’ on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous,” the complaint asserts. The suit comes after Secretary of Defense (“Secretary of War”) Pete [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, better known as Ali Kushayb, a former Sudanese militia chief, of 27 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in massacres and atrocities in Darfur region in 2003 and 2004. Guilty verdicts included for the war crimes of torture, murder [...]
French prosecutors on Sunday announced the opening of a “war crimes” investigation following the death of French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in southeastern Ukraine, according to the state-owned network France 24. The anti-terror prosecutor (PNAT) declared that the investigation was assigned to the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes. “War [...]
Young Moroccans took to the streets for the ninth consecutive night on Sunday, calling for an end to corruption and a change of government. The rallies have been organized online by the anonymous “GenZ 212” group, and have spread across the country since September 27. According to Morocco World News, a couple of hundred young [...]
A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday ordered a temporary restraining order preventing the deployment of the National Guard to Portland by the Trump administration. Karin J. Immergut, the US District Judge on the case, noted that the matter between the State of Oregon and the President of the United States involves “the intersection of [...]
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