The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Türkiye’s detention of Mehmet Osman Kavala since 2017 is unlawful in nature, finding that the country’s government has deprived him of his rights to free speech, peaceful assembly, fair trial, and liberty. A majority judges criticized the Turkish domestic courts for not “even attempting to [...]

Peace negotiations are often driven by an urgent imperative: stop the violence. But when those accused of war crimes remain indispensable to reaching an agreement, efforts to secure peace can collide with demands for accountability. That tension has become increasingly visible as governments, private mediators, and other diplomatic actors seek negotiated solutions to conflicts while [...]

On Monday, the UN’s global education fund, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), announced a $22 million initiative to help students in Sudan return to learning. ECW, a billion-dollar fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, administers the program. The fund is committed to ensuring displaced children are not left behind, providing them with holistic learning opportunities. [...]

Meta Platforms reached multibillion-dollar agreements with state authorities Wednesday that would place its treatment of young Facebook and Instagram users under judicially enforceable limits, resolving claims under state consumer-protection laws and federal child-privacy law. The principal agreement, reached with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three US territories, provides for payments of up to [...]

The growing use of autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI)-guided weapons on the battlefield prompted the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday to call for a legally binding international agreement governing their manufacture and deployment. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric warned of the increasingly rapid development and [...]

On July 7, the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus Resolution 62/18, recognizing forced pregnancy as a form of reproductive violence. It was the first time a UN-negotiated document named reproductive violence as a distinct form of sexual and gender-based violence, covering forced or denied contraception, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, and forced sterilization, including [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday published a proposal for a $103, 265 fee on those filing a “cap-subject” petition for an H-1B visa. The new fee would apply to all H-1B petitions, regardless of if the worker is inside or outside of the US, except for those filed by universities, certain non-profits [...]

Amnesty International reported on Monday that international failure to ensure children’s online safety from Big Tech harms is connected to a lack of youth perspectives in policy-making spaces. Classifying existing solutions as performative, the organization pointed out that increasing surveillance, data tracking, and censorship is a major threat to their safety. Children face “risks such [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury concrete and imminent enough to make their claims justiciable before the November midterm election. In Trump v. [...]

The New Zealand government announced on Monday that it has introduced a bill to ban social media for youth under 16. The law would require social media platforms and AI companions to verify users’ ages before providing services. The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require an age restriction on [...]