At least 79 people have been declared dead and hundreds more are missing in what Greece is calling one of the biggest ever migrant tragedies in its waters. The boat was first spotted in distress off the coast of Pylos, Greece on Tuesday morning. The boat then capsized, causing the Greek coast guard to mount [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Thursday it would open a preliminary examination into alleged war crimes in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The government of the DRC previously made a formal request to the tribunal to examine activities of particular armed forces and groups in the region. Prosecutor [...]

The Russian State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, voted on Wednesday to give its preliminary support to legislation that will permit its army to sign contracts with suspects or criminal convicts to take part in the war in Ukraine. According to the State Duma, the proposed legislation would authorize the country’s Ministry of [...]

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) accused the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Thursday of “kidnapping and assassinating” the governor of West Darfur State and a leader of the Juba Peace Agreement, Khamis Abdallah Abbakar. His murder follows an interview he gave to the Saudi-owned television channel Al Hadath in which he compared the [...]

A Russian court began hearing the case against more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov battalion, seized in May 2022 from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The members of the Azov battalion—including eight women—face charges of involvement with a terrorist organization and participating in action to overthrow Russian authorities. Photographs captured by the Associated [...]

The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report Tuesday on the bulk collection and retention of confidential journalistic material under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and the draft Remedial Order proposed to change the Act, calling the changes inadequate to protect journalists and their sources. We have published our report on the [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed an appeal Thursday from British citizens who challenged their loss of European Union (EU) citizen rights as a result of Brexit. The Court dismissed the appeal as “the appellants do not have an interest in bringing proceedings against the decision at issue.” The United Kingdom decided [...]

A Quebec Superior Court justice Wednesday denied a request for an emergency injunction against a ban on prayer rooms in schools that was instituted by the provincial government last month. In a joint challenge, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) argued on behalf of a Muslim student [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo of war crimes including murder and rape in a report released Tuesday. HRW based the accusations on reports of abuse it documented from November 2022 to March 2023, citing 8 unlawful killings and 14 cases of rape by M23 [...]

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. In a 7-2 ruling, the court rejected non-Indigenous adoptive parents’ and the state of Texas’s challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), siding with concerns from the Indigenous community. The [...]