Alberta premier Danielle Smith announced on Saturday during her radio call-in show “Your Province. Your Premier” that her government is prepared to invoke the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ “notwithstanding clause” as a “last resort” to enforce proposed restrictions on transgender healthcare and related policies, circumventing rights enshrined in the Charter. The restrictions would [...]
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) found in a landmark ruling Tuesday that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and London’s Metropolitan Police Service broke the law and breached the human rights of two Northern Ireland journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. The ruling pertained to a covert surveillance operation authorized by a Northern [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Egyptian government on Tuesday to revise the draft of the new asylum bill, known as the Law Regarding the Asylum of Foreigners (LRAF), and urged the government to consult with civil society and the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to ensure that the bill aligns with international [...]
Legal and structural obstacles persist in bringing justice by victims of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, the International Peace Institute (IPI) reported Tuesday. The report emphasizes the need for a more unified and victim-centered approach to address sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment (SH) within UN peace operations. While SEA committed against host [...]
Paraguay authorities have arrested 26 suspects, dismantled two criminal networks, and identified 12 companies engaged in systematic illegal deforestation and trafficking of native tree species. The Paraguayan government, along with INTERPOL and 14 other agencies, launched Operation Panthera Onca to combat environmental crimes and the exploitation of natural resources in the tri-border region where Paraguay, [...]
A New York judge on Monday denied president-elect Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss his hush-money conviction, finding that the evidence introduced in the case was not related to Trump’s official conduct as president and thus did not receive any immunity protections. Judge Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s motion to dismiss his indictment and vacate the jury [...]
TikTok filed an emergency petition to the US Supreme Court on Monday seeking to block a federal law that could force the shutdown of its platform next month. The petition challenges the constitutionality of legislation signed in April requiring TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or cease US operations by January [...]
Three students were killed and several others were wounded Monday at a Wisconsin school, police said, in the latest mass shooting to strike America’s educational institutions. The shooting occurred at Abundant Life Christian School in the state capital of Madison. The shooter, a student at the school, was among the deceased, police reported. As of [...]
The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have been committing mass sexual violence and perpetrating sex slavery in South Kordofan state since September 2023, according to a report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday. The findings expose a grim pattern of targeted violence, predominantly against women and girls, that HRW says [...]
The Constitutional Court of South Korea commenced its review on Monday of the parliamentary impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol. The proceedings follow Yoon’s controversial declaration of martial law on December 3, which sparked public outrage and allegations of insurrection and abuse of power. The court announced it will hold its first preparatory hearing on [...]
