Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday that Saudi Arabia has executed a record 151 people this year, the highest number since 1995. In 2014 the total number of executions carried out was 90, and so far this year the number is up by 68 percent. AI said that almost half of all the executions carried out [...]

A “people’s tribunal” opened Tuesday in The Hague to investigate the murder of thousands of alleged communists by Indonesian authorities in 1965. Human rights lawyers have charged Indonesia with nine counts, including torture, sexual violence, and murder, for the government’s involvement in the deaths of roughly 500,000 people. The tribunal has no legal authority, but [...]

Belgium’s Court of First Instance on Monday ordered Facebook to cease all tracking of users within the country who have not signed up for the social networking platform. The court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking unregistered users. The Belgian Privacy Commission , which brought the case in June, welcomed Monday’s ruling. Last [...]

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law Monday that would allow for the administering of edible medical marijuana to sick and disabled children on school grounds without triggering the arrests of parents or educators. The bill, also known as Genny’s Bill , was introduced in June to the New Jersey state assembly [...]

More than 400,000 Syrian refugee children living in Turkey are not receiving an education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Sunday in a 62-page report . The report and accompanying press release note that, although the Turkish government has formally granted entry into public schools for over two million Syrian refugees, unofficial obstacles continue to block [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to rule in Davis v. United States , Monday, rejecting a case that questioned the necessity of search warrants being presented to wireless carriers when law enforcement requests access to cell phone location data. The case was on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh [...]

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission on Sunday on Sunday criticized the Mexican Attorney General’s Office and other government offices involved in the investigation of the “Missing 43” for failing to comply with its recommendations. The commission, a non-governmental organization with the mission of protecting or monitoring human rights in Mexico, had issued 26 observations and [...]

The UK Supreme Court on Monday began hearings in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who claims the British government assisted in his 2004 rendition by US forces. Belhaj and his wife were arrested in Bangkok in 2004 and returned to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, where he spent six years in prison. Belhaj first filed his [...]

Egyptian officials on Sunday arrested prominent human rights activist and journalist Hossam Bahgat after military officials questioned him concerning a report he wrote on the secret trial of former military officers . Bahgat, who writes for Mada Masr , was charged with “publishing false news that harms national interests and disseminating information that disturbs public [...]

JURIST guest columnist Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law discusses the Children’s Bill of Rights… Earlier this month, three House Democrats in the US Congress introduced a resolution calling for the establishment of a Children’s Bill of Rights. But why? The US is already a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights [...]