The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said Monday that systemic corruption among the country’s political leaders is directly responsible for an escalating human rights crisis. The commission’s findings detail how programs such as “Oil for Roads” allowed high-ranking officials to allocate over $2.2 billion in recent years to companies linked to senior [...]

In a 2-1 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday denied US President Donald Trump’s motion to pause a lower court’s preliminary injunction prohibiting him from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The two judges in the majority, both Biden appointees, found Cook was likely to succeed on a [...]

A UN-sponsored independent inquiry into Israel’s conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported Monday that Israel has committed the international crime of genocide amid its military operations in the Gaza Strip. A 72-page legal analysis from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli forces have committed genocidal [...]

Thousands of people on Sunday protested in the Turkish capital of Ankara over a court case that could reshape the main opposition party after a year of legal battles concerning the arrest of opposition party members. On Monday the court will decide whether it will invalidate the 2023 congress of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US military carried out another targeted strike on a Venezuelan boat allegedly transporting drugs, killing three men aboard. The action comes two weeks after an initial strike on a Venezuelan speedboat allegedly engaged in drug-trafficking activity. Trump defended the strikes as a step necessary to curb narcotics [...]

The South Korean government launched an investigation Monday into potential human rights violations following the detention of over 300 of its citizens during a US immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia. On September 4, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), supported by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), conducted a raid at the $4.3 [...]

The United States government announced on September 12 that it will suspend the long-anticipated Strategic Dialogue with Kosovo, citing Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s actions as a source of escalating tensions and instability. In a statement posted on X, the US Embassy in Pristina said the decision reflected Washington’s concern that Kurti’s policies are undermining stability [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday spurred global leaders to reinforce the global ban on cluster munitions, and urged states still using or producing these weapons to promptly join the treaty. The statement came following the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) release of its annual report. Mark Hiznay, associate crisis, conflict and arms director at HRW, [...]

UN Secretary General António Guterres issued a statement Sunday condemning an attack by armed gangs in Haiti that killed at least 40 people. Women, children, and the elderly were among the victims of the attack in the Cabaret commune of Haiti’s West Department. Violence has surged in Haiti since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in July [...]

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to declare a national emergency to maintain federal control over Washington, DC’s police force, escalating a legal battle with the city over his administration’s unprecedented takeover of local law enforcement. On August 11, Trump asserted federal control over the DC Metropolitan Police Department by invoking Section 740 of the [...]