UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Thursday urged Tunisian authorities to halt their persecution of civil society organizations, journalists, human rights activists and members of the judiciary, who have been subjected to criminal proceedings in retaliation for their criticisms of government policies and the president’s consolidation of executive power. Türk criticized the growing trend [...]

The US Court of International Trade ruled against the Trump administration’s sweeping 10 percent global tariff in a 2-1 decision on Thursday. The majority stated that the tariffs are “invalid” and “unauthorized by law,” calling for the administration to halt collecting tariffs from the plaintiffs and refund prior payments. The court’s decision applied to three [...]

The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing partisan gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts, ruling 4-3 that the legislature violated procedural requirements when proposing the change. In a majority opinion authored by Justice D. Arthur Kelsey, the court noted that the General Assembly’s October 31, 2025 vote to [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on authorities in India to investigate a violent attack against two journalists while covering the Health Minister’s visit to the eastern state of Jharkhand and to ensure that all perpetrators are held accountable. The reported attack took place on April 28, when Indian journalists Ashish Kumar [...]

Provincial electoral authorities in Alberta received a petition for independence from Canada on Monday. The verification process for the signatures is currently on hold, pending a decision from the provincial court on the compatibility of the petition with First Nations treaty rights. Elections Alberta affirmed that it received the petition, “A Referendum Relating to Alberta [...]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) warned in a statement issued Tuesday that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia continue to face systemic racial discrimination within the country’s criminal justice system. The committee urged the state to intensify efforts to eliminate racial discrimination against Indigenous children, including the institutional [...]

Amnesty International stated on Tuesday that fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group active in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), committed numerous human rights abuses against civilians in the region that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The organization based its statement on its newly released report, which [...]

Eighty years ago, on May 3, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East opened its proceedings in Tokyo. The world was still reckoning with the devastation of the Second World War, and the tribunal represented one of humanity’s earliest attempts to articulate a legal response to mass atrocity, aggressive war, and systematic violations [...]

UN experts on Monday decried the ongoing attacks on Sudan’s hospitals and medical personnel, calling on the international community to take concrete action to protect the country’s collapsing health care system. The UN experts highlighted that systematic attacks on Sudan’s health care system have been ongoing. The attacks persist despite the unanimous adoption of resolution [...]

Swedish authorities arrested the Chinese captain of a suspected Russia-linked oil tanker on Monday on suspicion of using forged documents and violating maritime law in the Baltic Sea, according to local media. On Sunday, the Swedish Coast Guard stopped the Jin Hui, a 182-meter tanker, in Swedish territorial waters south of Trelleborg over suspicions it was [...]