The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear San Francisco’s dispute against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over permitting wastewater disposal into the Pacific Ocean under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The issue in the case City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency centers on whether the Clean Water Act allows [...]
Thai activist musician Chai-amorn Kaewwiboonpan was sentenced by the Criminal courts on Monday to four years of imprisonment for actions deemed insulting to Thailand’s monarchy and for violating the country’s Computer Crime Act. The charges stem from an incident in 2021 where Chai-amorn publicly admitted to burning a portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn. He [...]
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday called proposed nationwide strikes on budget day encouraging Indigenous Māori and non-Māori allies to walk off their jobs in support of Indigenous rights ‘illegal’. Luxon labelled appeals from opposition party Te Pāti Māori for Māori to “stand and rise” up in support of the strike “entirely wrong” [...]
The Taiwan Legislative Yuan, the island’s parliament, passed controversial parliamentary reforms on Tuesday as 70,000 citizens assembled outside the parliament to protest against the changes. The cabinet, chaired by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), will send back the legislation to the Legislative Yuan for review due to concerns about how the bill was passed and [...]
The Kenyan Parliament has launched four public hearings into alleged human rights violations committed by UK troops stationed in the country, with the first two hearings taking place in Laikipia County on Tuesday. The next hearing took place Wednesday morning in Samburu County, and the last will occur on Thursday morning in Laikipia. This follows [...]
US District Judge Aileen Cannon denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request to restrict Donald Trump’s public statements in the ongoing classified documents case against the former president. The prosecutors had sought to bar Trump from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution. In her order, Judge Cannon [...]
Global executions hit the highest level since 2015, with serious increases mainly in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, Amnesty International said in its 2023 annual report on the global use of the death penalty on Wednesday 1,153 executions were recorded in 2023 globally, marking an increase of more than 30 per cent from 2022. [...]
Digital rights group Access Now, alongside over 20 Russian and international civil society organizations, sent an open letter on Tuesday to YouTube and its parent company Google calling on them to cease aiding the Kremlin in censoring independent media and human rights organizations in Russia. The letter, entitled “Open letter to YouTube and Google: Stop [...]
Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday rejected a bill recognizing a Palestinian state, proposed at the end of February by four left-wing parties. Based on voting results, 83 MPs voted against the proposal, while 21 lawmakers in favor. Speaking at the first parliamentary debate on the proposed bill in April, Foreign Minister Lars L. Rasmussen said that [...]
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution last week establishing a commemoration day for the 1995 killings of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica and to formally recognize the event as genocide. Proposed by Germany and Rwanda, two countries with a unique history dealing with genocide in the 20th century, and [...]
