Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned both China’s oppression of critics of the nation’s human rights record and the UN’s failure to stop such conduct. The report alleges that, “China has worked consistently and often aggressively to silence criticism of its human rights record before UN bodies and has taken actions aimed at weakening [...]
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A 26-year-old Mexican immigrant in New York has amended his ongoing lawsuit against the US government to challenge the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program . Batalla Vidal, who initially brought the suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York in August 2016, [...]
Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga , whose campaign against the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared unsuccessful after a countrywide election last month by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Committee (IEBC) , has issued a statement that he would not be participating in the October re-election process. The August election itself has been invalidated by [...]
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi reported on Monday that various crimes against humanity have been committed in the troubled country since investigations began in April 2015. In June the commission released evidence of human rights violations such as illegal executions, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary arrests and detention, and orchestrated [...]
The Guatemalan Supreme Court ruled on Monday that legislators will review a request to lift President Jimmy Morales’s immunity from prosecution amid mounting evidence of illegal political financing. According to prosecutors, Morales’s 2015 presidential campaign secretly received $825,000 in financing, and certain expenses were paid for by an unknown source of funding. While Morales has [...]
Kem Sokha, head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was charged Tuesday with treason after his arrest on Sunday. The arrest of Sokha was first announced by his daughter on social media. Sokha and others were arrested and charged with committing acts of treason by colluding with foreign agencies . At issue is the [...]
Colombia’s government signed a peace agreement with the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Ecuador on Monday, two days before Pope Francis’s visit to the country. In a speech on Monday, Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos , said that the during the ceasefire agreement, the ELN pledged not to kidnap or harass citizens, or attack the [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday ruled 11-6 that unrestricted monitoring of an employee’s communication by his or her employer constitutes a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 8) , concerning the “right to respect for private and family life.” This ruling concerns a 2007 incident [...]
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Tuesday announced a settlement with Buffalo City School District to halt discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in the district. The settlement came in a lawsuit the NYCLU filed in May alleging the school openly and consistently allowed discrimination by preventing students from forming [...]
