On November 15, 2023, more than five weeks after Hamas‘ heinous October 7 attack on Israel, and after thousands of lives were lost, the Security Council, the United Nations body with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, finally managed to pass a somewhat controversial resolution in response to the crisis. [...]

“The Safety of the People shall be the Highest Law.” Cicero Eschatology is about certain end-of-life expectations, about “last or final judgments, about death, about God’s judgment and the human “soul.” But what possible connections could link such metaphysical or religious expectations with Israel’s current struggle against jihadist terror? Are there any pertinent legal connections? [...]

This week, Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the U.S. and the world, conducted a study of 300 Jewish college students. That study found that more than four out of every five Jewish students (84%) say the situation in Israel and Gaza is affecting them. Two out of every three Jewish students (68%) [...]

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw revealed on Thursday a significant increase in Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes in Canada’s largest city in an update to the public. The rapid rise of Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crimes has been linked to the ongoing war in Gaza, beginning with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.  [...]

A Tennessee state court ruled that a Republican-drawn map for the state’s Senate seats violated the Tennessee Constitution. In coming to their Wednesday ruling, a panel of judges determined that lawmakers incorrectly numbered the legislative districts in Nashville and that the Tennessee legislature will need to re-number the Senate districts in accordance with the law. [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Friday urging authorities to protect abortion rights defenders, including healthcare workers, more effectively. The group interviewed 48 abortion rights defenders globally and found that these defenders have experienced increasing difficulty in their work as they have been subject to stigmatization and unjust prosecutions. According to Amnesty International, legal criminalization [...]

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday allowed prosecutors to move forward with their request to hold a confirmation of charges hearing in the absence of Joseph Kony, a fugitive Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Prosecutors filed for a confirmation of charges hearing against Kony on 24 November [...]

German police announced Thursday that they searched 20 apartments of suspects linked to the far-right Reichsbürger movement. The movement has been accused of attempting to destabilize the Federal Republic of Germany and its state institutions. This latest series of raids took place in eight of Germany’s 16 states and was initiated in 2021 after police [...]

The Seoul High Court rendered a decision on Thursday that ordered the Japanese government to compensate each of the former “comfort women” who initially brought a lawsuit in the Seoul Central District Court in 2016, according to South Korean news source KBS. The decision overturns an April 2021 decision from the district court and awards [...]

The Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights (CARDH) announced on Thursday that they would temporarily suspend their operations in Haiti due to escalating threats against its staff. CARDH has operated in Haiti since it was founded in 2008, but has steadily reduced its operations over recent months due to intensifying gang violence within [...]