The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Thursday expressed concern about the rise in violence and racist hate crimes targeting migrants in South Africa, urging authorities to implement measures to address this issue. CERD reported a range of attacks perpetrated against migrants, including killings, displacement, abductions, looting and destruction of migrants’ property, [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned the deadly gang attack that occurred in Kenscoff, Haiti earlier this week, leaving at least 47 dead, 22 injured, and reportedly dozens more abducted. According to the human rights organization, many of those attacked were people seeking refuge in a church following violence. “Sadly, we are once again witnessing another [...]

US District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday canceled her earlier ruling granting a preliminary injunction to prevent the US Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order (EO) on or before this years midterm elections. This latest development in the tumultuous legal battle over the EO directly follows a request by the [...]

Two UN peacekeepers on Monday were killed in an ambush in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state in an attack that the organization has stated may constitute a war crime under international law, the latest in a region marred by severe military conflict. The attack comes amidst a widespread civil conflict in South Sudan dating back [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday Canada’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20B in US goods, beginning on September 8th, 2026. This move comes after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs over the weekend on Canadian goods following the collapse of trade negotiations. The failure of last-ditch trade negotiations on Friday marks a [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday sanctioned three organizations and two individuals, accusing UK-based Palestine Action, the Masar Badil network, and Italy-based Autistici Inventati of ties to violent far-left extremism. The designations were made under Executive Order 13224, the post-9/11 authority letting the US block property of designated terrorists and [...]

A divided US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver can face prosecution on two of three charges over a scrum with federal agents at Delaney Hall, rejecting her argument that the Speech or Debate Clause and separation-of-powers principles immunize her conduct during a legislative oversight visit to [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Türkiye’s detention of Mehmet Osman Kavala since 2017 is unlawful in nature, finding that the country has deprived him of his right to free speech, peaceful assembly, fair trial, and liberty. The majority judges criticized the Turkish domestic courts for not “even attempting to establish” [...]

Peace negotiations are often driven by an urgent imperative: stop the violence. But when those accused of war crimes remain indispensable to reaching an agreement, efforts to secure peace can collide with demands for accountability. That tension has become increasingly visible as governments, private mediators, and other diplomatic actors seek negotiated solutions to conflicts while [...]