Three organizations initiated legal action Tuesday against the European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) Agency, or Frontex, at the European Court of Justice for violations of EU and international law. Frontex is responsible for coordinating border control between EU member States and other countries in the Schengen Area. The three organizations—Progress Lawyers Network, Front-Lex and Greek Helsinki [...]

An American journalist was detained by Myanmar’s military junta on Monday as he attempted to leave the country. The journalist, Danny Fenster, is the fourth foreign media worker held by the government since the military seized power in a coup in February. Fenster is the managing editor of the news organization Frontier Myanmar, which is [...]

Nearly 2,100 women lawyers in India wrote to Chief Justice Shri NV Ramana on Tuesday urging him to take cognizance of the post-electoral violence in the state of West Bengal by constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to register First Information Reports (FIRs) and investigate the matter. FIRs are information reports regarding the commission of [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday released a part of an internal memo that was used in 2019 by former Attorney General William Barr in his decision not to prosecute former President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice. Late on Monday, the DOJ said in a court filing in the US District Court [...]

A US federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia’s anti-BDS law, which prohibits state contractors from boycotting Israel, violates the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Abby Martin won her suit against the University System of Georgia after Georgia Southern University (GSU) representatives revoked Martin’s invitation to speak at the 2020 [...]

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed two major criminal justice reform bills into law Monday. The Alternatives to Incarceration Act, which replaces the Tennessee Community Act of 1985, places a cap on the duration of probation. It is meant to help local governments find alternatives to prison. The Re-Entry Success Act decreases the amount of time [...]

Critics of the D.C. Statehood Bill, which passed the House on April 22, rightly object that it cannot properly override the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution. The House Bill creates utterly unnecessary problems under the Amendment by proposing a greatly reduced “District”, encompassing the White House, the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings, and the National [...]

Three current and former deputies of the Harris County, Texas, Constable’s Office, Precinct-1 filed a lawsuit Monday against their supervising officers alleging civil rights claims of sexual harassment, sexual battery, and retaliation, as well as loss of bodily integrity. The complaint alleges that Constable Alan Rosen, Assistant Chief Chris Gore, and Lieutenant Shane Rigdon sexually [...]

The High Court of Uganda at Mbale will hear a case on Wednesday brought by citizens against the federal government, alleging the government failed to uphold its human rights obligations to protect threatened communities from the effects of climate change. Forty-eight survivors of a deadly landslide assert that the Ugandan government violated their “rights to [...]

On 22nd April 2022, Earth Day, the Escazu Agreement enters into operation, marking a significant moment for transparent and participatory decision-making in environmental governance. The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018 (Escazu Agreement) was adopted in 2018 to “promote environmental democracy, [...]