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France’s National Assembly voted 369-68 Tuesday in favor of a sweeping new law aimed to address an uptick in drug crime. The new law will create a specialized public prosecutor’s office designed to investigate and combat organized crime.
The law overhauls a broad set of reforms intended to...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out Myanmar’s military junta on Monday for years of unlawful attacks on the healthcare system that have left 2 million people in need of assistance following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month.
According to HRW, the junta has arrested over 872 health workers...
Cuba revoked parole and arrested prominent dissidents Jose Daniel Ferrer and Felix Navarro on Tuesday. Cuba’s Supreme Popular Tribunal, Cuba’s highest court, announced in a statement that Ferrer and Navarro had violated parole conditions and therefore must return to prison.
Maricela Sosa, vice...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Jordanian authorities forcibly evicted and demolished residences in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without following proper procedures, as part of an urban development project. The project’s stated goals include improving living...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Tuesday that the Republic of Malta’s “golden passport” program, where foreign investors could apply to be naturalized as a Maltese citizen for making direct investments, amounted to the commercialisation of EU citizenship. This is a...
The European Court of Human Rights refused Tuesday to hear an unlawful detention claim against Italy, finding that the applicant has not exhausted all available and effective domestic remedies. The applicant argued that Italy violated his right to liberty under Article 5 of the European...
Human rights groups urged the Liberian president should renew his executive order to establish a war crimes court for crimes committed in the two Liberian civil wars on Monday.
Adama Dempster, the secretary-general of the Civil Society Human Rights Platform of Liberia, urged the establishment...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday strongly condemned the 11-hour detention and potential prosecution of two journalists in Macao, calling the move a “disturbing escalation” in the ongoing suppression of independent journalism in China’s special administrative region...
The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) launched the Victims of Terrorism Associations Network (VoTAN) on Monday. A key outcome of the first United Nations Global Congress of Victims of Terrorism, the initiative seeks to foster stronger collaboration among victims’ associations...
Human Rights Watch issued an urgent report on ‘killer robots’, automated AI weapons which can kill people without human instruction or oversight, ahead of the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons systems in May 2025 in New York. HRW advocates for “the call...
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