The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a case on the fate of “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” a painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro now worth millions.
The court ordered that the case be reconsidered under a recently-passed California law intended to make it...
Peru’s public prosecutor announced Monday that its Extinction of Domain prosecutor in Ayacucho is the office with the highest number of rulings uner the country’s controversial asset forfeiture law. Between 2019 and 2024, the prosecutor’s office in Ayacucho issued a total of 255 rulings...
A UN expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, William O’Neill, said that the country is at risk of falling under gang control and reiterated a call for stronger action from the international community, in a statement in New York on Tuesday. This echoes the UN High Commissioner’s warning...
A group of 20 human rights organizations said on Monday that Bulgarian authorities should suspend plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia and allow his resettlement to a third country.
Al-Khalidi has been a human rights defender and prisoners’ rights...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, informed attendants of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday of the continuous accessibility barriers that people with disabilities, especially women, face.
Volker Türk contended that the international community failed to...
The spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, warned on Monday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to worsen as the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalates. Dujarric emphasized that humanitarian funding cuts have...
The Kurdish Human Rights Network in Syria, along with several Kurdish human rights organizations, issued a strong condemnation of the ongoing violence in Syria’s coastal region, calling for an immediate halt to ethnic cleansing and sectarian-based atrocities. The country is witnessing violence...
INTERPOL Manila arrested the former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday for the alleged crimes against humanity committed during the “war on drugs” campaign between 2011 and 2019.
According to the Philippines Presidential Communication Office, INTERPOL Manila arrested...
UNRWA released a report on Sunday on the human rights situation in Palestine from February 26 to March 4, in which the agency demanded that Israel lift its Gaza blockade to allow essential humanitarian access in compliance with its international humanitarian law (IHL) obligations and highlighted...
The K’ómoks First Nation of Vancouver Island overwhelmingly voted for a treaty and constitution granting self-governance on Saturday.
Regarding the recent vote, K’ómoks chief councilor Nicole Rempel stated:
83 percent of eligible voters within the First Nation voted to ratify the new...
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