The European Commission on Monday has fined Chinese online marketplace AliExpress €550 million for failing to assess and reduce risks related to the sale of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products on its platform, making it one of the largest penalties ever issued under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In commenting on AliExpress’ non-compliance with [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday detailing four attacks on Ecuadorian persons, properties and vessels that they attribute to an intensified counter-narcotics campaign led by the US with the partnership of the Ecuadorian government. The first attack took place in March on the farming community of San Martín, Sucumbíos province, and was [...]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday issued a formal warning, cautioning the international community against the increasingly sophisticated, highly adaptive, and technologically advanced nature of international crime syndicates that are currently expanding their operations across Southeast Asia. Entitled “An Interconnected Criminal Ecosystem: Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for South-East Asia,” [...]

Israel has ignored three binding International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders on Gaza for more than two years, a United Nations commission of inquiry concluded June 18, finding that it “continues to blatantly disregard” measures issued in January, March and May 2024 (A/HRC/62/CRP.2, para. 330). The finding is not just another entry in a long [...]

Amnesty International on Monday condemned the Delhi Police for using tear gas and batons against protesters from the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) who were attempting to march toward India’s Parliament, raising concerns over the right to peaceful assembly. The demonstrators had assembled at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site in central Delhi, on the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that the United Nations is facing a severe funding crisis, largely because major contributors like the US and China, who together supply nearly half of all member-state dues, have either failed to pay or consistently paid late. This has resulted in job cuts throughout the organization as well [...]

Meta Platforms went to trial on Monday in the Chancery Court for Davidson County in Nashville in a civil enforcement action brought by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti regarding allegations that the company designed Instagram with the goal of intentionally promoting addiction in young users and deliberately misleading the public about the platform’s safety. The [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested on US soil, President Donald Trump declared Monday, an assurance that underscored a widening gap between international criminal law on paper and its enforcement in practice as Washington escalates its campaign against the court seeking his arrest. “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, [...]

A Bangladeshi court has ordered law enforcement agencies to locate a fisherman last seen in Coast Guard custody, in what appears to be the country’s first enforced disappearance case since the 2024 uprising that toppled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged authorities Sunday to comply with the July 12 High Court [...]

A federal judge blocked Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Brothers Discovery Inc. on Monday, temporarily freezing a deal that would place two of Hollywood’s five major studios under one owner while a dozen states press an antitrust challenge. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the US District Court for the Northern District of California [...]