The United Nations on Monday urged all countries to respect international norms safeguarding civil aviation, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his intention to “completely shut down” Venezuelan airspace. Speaking at a press briefing, the Secretary-General’s spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the UN’s position remains “consistent” in calling for “full respect of states’ obligations [...]

A former US immigration judge filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ), charging violations of her civil rights. Tania Nemer, who was released from her position as an immigration judge in February, contends that she was dismissed because of her sex, her ethnicity, and her political affiliation with the Democratic Party. In [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to safeguard the court and combat impunity for international crimes at the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which meets at The Hague in the Netherlands this week. In a press release, it the organization stressed the necessity to do so [...]

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric… It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence. —Albert Camus, The Plague World system chaos is not emerging ex nihilo, out of nothing. There have been conspicuous warnings. In [...]

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a lawyer who represented US President Donald Trump in a number of civil and criminal matters between his first and second presidencies cannot serve as acting US attorney for the District of New Jersey. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals found the Trump administration’s efforts to install Alina Habba [...]

African leaders convened in Algiers on Sunday for the Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa. The conference was another step in the African Union’s plan of action to advance justice and reparations for Africans. Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Attaf opened the conference with a call for leaders to follow in the [...]

Five humanitarian groups and 77 international civil society organizations on Saturday condemned Ukraine’s suspension of the 1997 Mine Ban Convention, also known as the Ottawa Convention. The organizations stated that the Ottawa Convention does not allow for the obligations of state parties to be suspended, including during wartime. According to Article 20(3) of the Ottawa [...]

The Supreme Court of Russia, in a closed-door decision on Friday, designated the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF/FBK) as a “terrorist organization.” The ACF, a US-registered entity, was founded by the late opposition leader Alexeï Navalny as part of his movement against corruption in 2011. On October 22, the Prosecutor General’s Office petitioned the court to designate [...]

Thousands joined protests in the Philippines on Sunday, including the Roman Catholic clergy, calling for the resignation of the country’s president and the prosecution of high-level officials over a corruption scandal tied to flood-control infrastructure. Opposition groups and the Catholic Church marched along Manila’s EDSA Avenue, calling for investigations into President Bongbong Marcos and his [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday issued a warning that growing irregularities, political interference and security pressures threaten to compromise the credibility and inclusiveness of the upcoming general elections in the Central African Republic (CAR), scheduled for December 28. The warning comes against a backdrop of political manoeuvring in the CAR. In a 2023 constitutional referendum, [...]