Articles Tagged with Vladimir Putin

Thousands of foreign nationals recently released or escaped from Cambodian scamming compounds urgently need humanitarian aid, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Many of these people were reportedly trafficked into the compounds, and their testimonies highlight the immediate dangers faced following their release, with no money, passports, medical care, or ways to reach safety. Amnesty International spoke [...]

Three Alberta chief justices said the separation of powers is crucial for a healthy democracy, in a rare statement issued Tuesday. The judges said that their role is to interpret and apply the law, including the Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, when disputes come before the courts. They stated that judicial [...]

The formal US withdrawal from the landmark Paris Climate Accords sets a disturbing precedent that will “instigate a race to the bottom,” Amnesty International said Tuesday. Marta Schaaf, Amnesty’s program director for climate and corporate accountability, stated that the move may dramatically hinder or reverse global efforts to mitigate the consequences of climate change: The [...]

Norwegian prosecutors on Monday indicted two Norwegian nationals and a Norwegian company for allegedly paying bribes to leaders in the Republic of the Congo in exchange for offshore oil drilling rights. Authorities announced that the individuals and oil company Hemla Africa Holding, subsidiary of Norwegian oil group Petronor E&P, were indicted of gross corruption and [...]

As the trial of six Italian officers in a 2023 shipwreck is set to begin Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called the proceedings a crucial opportunity for asylum seekers and migrants killed at sea to receive justice. The officers, including two Italian Coast Guard and four Customs Police officers (Guardia di Finanza), are [...]

UN experts on Monday cautioned against the escalating use of arrests and criminal proceedings against agricultural trade union activity in France, after authorities detained 52 farmers during peaceful protests in Paris this month. On January 15, union leaders and members of the Confédération Paysanne held protests in opposition to the EU-Mercosur Deal, signed in December [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that he is beginning an investigation into TikTok due to reports of the platform suppressing content critical of US President Donald Trump. Newsom and his team announced via X that they have received multiple reports from sources stating that the widely-popular TikTok platform had been recently suppressing the [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Monday expressed concerns over “highly inflammatory” rhetoric, accompanied by troop movements, by senior military officers in South Sudan. A statement by a military commander in Jonglei State, calling for indiscriminate violence against civilians, had reportedly led to 180,000 fleeing their homes. This was deemed [...]

Two media outlets reported Monday on states’ abuses of Interpol red notices to target political dissidents and human rights defenders. Amnesty International urged Interpol to address this “grave institutional failure” and improve its transparency. Disclose, a French investigative media outlet, reported that Interpol has disclosed to the public less than 10 percent of the 86,000 [...]

A US federal appeals court on Monday declined to reinstate a lower court injunction on federal agent tactics at protests in Minnesota. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused to extend a trial court’s preliminary injunction that prohibited agents from retaliating against individuals engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The injunction [...]