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The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine voted on Wednesday to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, making Ukraine a state party. 281 deputies of the Rada voted for the bill while only one voted against it. The bill was introduced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on...
The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by Wazir Singh Poonia, contended that the caste system is unconstitutional and violates the fundamental rights...
The United States Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it has sanctioned Michel Joseph Martelly, the former president of Haiti, on drug trafficking charges.
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control had imposed these sanctions under Executive Order 14059, which targets...
Taliban figures have banned United Nations Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan Richard Bennett, from entering the country. Representatives of the regime told Afghanistan’s TOLO News that:
Bennett, who was appointed to his mandate shortly after the fall of Kabul in 2022, called the decision to...
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian parliament, approved the Law on Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Activities of Religious Organizations in Ukraine (No. 8371), which bans religious organisations affiliated with Russia in Ukraine on Tuesday. Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned on Wednesday Burkina Faso’s military authorities’ use of emergency law to unlawfully conscript magistrates who have opened legal proceedings against junta supporters.
HRW has condemned the military’s actions as a blatant violation of the independence of the...
A German court rejected an appeal against the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, on Tuesday.
Furchner was employed as a stenographer in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof concentration camp located near the Polish city of Gdansk...
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr promised on Wednesday that “heads will roll” as the government investigates how a former town mayor accused of ties with Chinese criminal syndicates fled the country, stating that “the departure of Alice Guo has laid bare the corruption that undermines...
The Supreme Court of Kenya delivered a judgement on Tuesday issuing an order of a stay of execution of the ruling of the Court of Appeal which rendered the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional in its entirety. The seven-judge bench posited that the order was necessary due to public interest, among...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called for the European Union (EU) to urge the government of India to end human rights abuses in a joint statement released Monday ahead of the EU-India Human Rights Dialogue.
HRW and Amnesty International, alongside Front Line Defenders, the...
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