The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the country’s traditional caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by Wazir Singh Poonia, contended that the caste system is unconstitutional and violates the fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution. The bench, led by [...]

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament, approved the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activities of Religious Organizations in Ukraine (No. 8371), which bans religious organisations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine on Tuesday. Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, announced the results of the plenary session. The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned Burkina Faso military authorities’ use of emergency law to unlawfully conscript magistrates who have opened legal proceedings against junta supporters. HRW has condemned the military’s actions as a blatant violation of the independence of the judiciary, saying “the authorities should immediately revoke these bogus conscription notices.” The organization [...]

A new law came into force in Hungary on Wednesday limiting which Ukrainian refugees can access subsidized housing. Only those from areas that are deemed to be most affected by the Russian invasion will be eligible for the long term. The new law excludes individuals arriving from, among other regions, Transcarpathia. This has been a [...]

Amnesty International (AI) released a briefing on Wednesday highlighting the ongoing repression against human rights under Evariste Ndayishimiye’s presidency in Burundi. The briefing released by AI, titled “Burundi: Rhetoric versus Reality; Repression of Civil Society Continues Under President Ndayishimiye’s Government,” details the ongoing suppression of Burundi’s civic space, particularly against journalists, activists for human rights, [...]

A German court rejected an appeal against the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, on Tuesday. Furchner was employed as a stenographer in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof concentration camp located near the Polish city of Gdansk (formerly Nazi-occupied Danzig), where over 60,000 people were killed. Run by the [...]

Far-right movements gaining popularity in many European countries are primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Islam. This study examines Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right political party in Germany. Founded in 2013, the party launched the AfD manifesto, a public document approved at its Federal Party Congress held in Stuttgart from April 30 to May 1 2016. Presently, [...]

The Supreme Court of Kenya delivered a judgement on Tuesday issuing an order staying a Court of Appeal which rendered the country’s controversial Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional in its entirety. The seven-judge bench posited that the order was necessary due to public interest, among other reasons. The Supreme Court while delivering this judgement, analyzed whether [...]

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr promised on Wednesday that “heads will roll” as the government investigates how a former town mayor accused of ties with Chinese criminal syndicates fled the country, stating that “the departure of Alice Guo has laid bare the corruption that undermines our justice system and erodes public trust”. On Monday, Senator [...]

A US federal court in Texas set aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new ban on non-compete clauses Tuesday, holding that the agency lacked the authority to issue the ban and that the new rule is “arbitrary and capricious.” The ban, which was set to go into effect on September 4, seeks to prevent employers [...]