The appeal of the fraud conviction of a Catholic cardinal resumed in the Vatican on Tuesday after a pause in proceedings following the resignation of the case’s chief prosecutor for alleged partiality. In the continuation of the appeal, the defense argued that the original investigation into the case was flawed. In 2019, Pope Francis issued [...]

Ryan Wesley Routh was sentenced to life in prison plus 84 months for his attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump and related offenses, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release on Wednesday. Routh attempted to kill Trump at one of his golf courses in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September of 2024. [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned an Algerian court for a decision in the second instance that upheld the imprisonment of trade unionist and president of the National Union of Civil Servants in the Field of Culture and Arts (SNFC), Ali Mammeri. The decision also reduced the sentence from 15 years to 10 years. Mammeri was [...]

This interview with Frédéric Mégret—Professor of International Law at McGill University and a leading scholar on the relationship between law, violence, and armed conflict—was conducted at a moment when autonomous weapons systems and artificial intelligence have moved from speculative concern to operational reality. As AI-enabled targeting systems proliferate across battlefields from Ukraine to Gaza, and [...]

New research published Thursday by two non-profit organizations, HelpAge International and Amnesty International, shows older people suffering an overlooked health crisis in occupied Gaza. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director for research and advocacy, explained the key facets of the situation, stating: During armed conflict, older people’s needs are often overlooked. In Gaza, older people [...]

UN experts on Wednesday urged Israel to withdraw a bill proposing a mandatory death penalty for terrorist acts, warning it would violate the right to life and discriminate against Palestinians. The urgent call was issued by a group of UN Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts, who detailed how the proposed legislation would create a two-tier [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday reiterated that “the occupation must end,” warning that recent Israeli settlement plans and mounting restrictions on humanitarian organizations threaten the possibility of a two-state solution and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speaking at the 2026 Opening Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the [...]

At a moment when the meaning and vitality of the rule of law are hotly debated, we risk forgetting that the principles we now take for granted were not inevitable—they were fought for, often by individuals whose names have been forgotten. This series profiles the pioneers of rights: people who identified gaps in legal protection [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that crackdowns on freedoms increased in several West African countries throughout 2025, following the release of its annual global report on the status of human rights. The 36th edition of the World Report documented a widespread regression in political and civil rights across the region. The report highlighted extended [...]

UN experts on Wednesday condemned the conviction of lawyers and human rights defenders Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha by the District and Sessions Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. Several independent experts, including the special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, and the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, [...]