The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) union filed complaints against Saudi Arabia with the UN’s International Labor Organization (ILO) claiming that at least 21,000 migrant workers in Saudi Arabia suffered from severe human rights abuses and wage theft for over 10 years mainly by two now-liquidated Saudi companies. According to BWI’s Wednesday complaints, Saudi [...]

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns formally apologized in Parliament House on Thursday to all those convicted or affected by laws that criminalized homosexuality, which was decriminalized 40 years ago. New South Wales is the last Australian state to apologize for these laws. Victoria and South Australia apologized in 2016, followed by the other three [...]

The US imposed visa restrictions on dozens of Georgian officials on Thursday, just three days after Georgia’s parliament enacted its controversial “foreign agent” law. The restrictions apply to between “two and three dozen” unnamed members of the Georgian Dream party, members of parliament, law enforcement officials, and private citizens. US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew [...]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured, in a speech to the country’s parliament. Germany does not currently deport people to Afghanistan and Syria due to [...]

Nine out of 10 children in Gaza could not eat nutrients from enough food groups to ensure healthy growth and development, a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report published on Thursday found. The report points out that localized conflicts are intensifying severe child food poverty. Children in extremely fragile contexts, such as in [...]

The European Court of Human Rights held unanimously in the case of Bersheda and Rybolovlev v. Monaco on Thursday that the conduct of a judge failed to effectively limit the scope of the investigation into a lawyer who was accused of secretly recording a conversation. In 2016, Tetiana Bershedawas was charged with invasion of privacy [...]

Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Thursday that it had broken up a major international human smuggling ring. This comes following an investigation that began in 2022 after the Cornwall Regional Task Force discovered a human smuggling group that was smuggling immigrants from Canada to the US. The RCMP alleges that between July [...]

The US Supreme Court decided Thursday that when Native Americans administer healthcare through their own programs, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Indian Health Service must pay for costs associated with the operation of the healthcare program. The case was brought by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and Northern Arapaho Tribe, both of which [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday slammed Italy’s deal to send asylum seekers to Albania, terming the pact a “model of mismanagement” and a “blueprint for abuse.” The immigration deal was signed last November and seeks to send asylum seekers from Italy to Albania, where their Italian asylum requests would be considered. Under the five-year deal [...]

Spain has asked the International Court of Justice to allow it to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albare noted on Thursday. The minister said Spain supported the role of the International Criminal Court and called on all countries to uphold peace and the [...]