The Budapest 5th and 13th District Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges Thursday against the city’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the 2025 Budapest Pride March. In Thursday’s statement, the Hungarian prosecution maintained that it had brought the charges lawfully, in accordance with the law in force at the time. However, a European court held that [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned China for banning family members from visiting the resting places of people who perished in the 1989 Tiananmen Square repression. This is the first time in 37 years that the Chinese authorities have banned the visit. According to the Tiananmen Mothers, the Chinese authorities notified family members of people who [...]

The Amsterdam District Court on Wednesday allowed Greenpeace International to proceed with its anti-SLAPP lawsuit against Energy Transfer in the Netherlands. Energy Transfer, one of the largest energy companies in North America with businesses operations in the Netherlands, attempted to halt a lawsuit initiated by Greenpeace International, an environmental group headquartered in the Netherlands. The [...]

The Senate of Canada on Wednesday rejected, by a vote of 32-41, its human rights committee’s proposed amendment to include a “residential school denialism” offense in the contentious hate crime bill. The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights returned its report with amendments to the Senate on Tuesday. One main amendment added a residential school [...]

A Kenyan court on Tuesday lengthened its suspension on building a US Ebola quarantine center near the Laikipia airbase following protests that left two people dead. After reviewing an emergency petition by the Katiba Institute, Justice Patricia Mande Nyaundi postponed the operation of the planned quarantine facility by another three weeks. The petition raised issues [...]

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) urged members of parliament (MPs) on Tuesday to amend the pending Bill C-14 on bail reform, to maintain the presumption of innocence. The Liberal Party introduced Bill C-14 in October to make bail rules stricter and toughen sentencing outcomes by targeting over 80 areas in Canada’s Criminal Code, especially [...]

The Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada, an independent civilian watchdog, released its 2025 annual report on Tuesday, calling for legislation authorizing additional powers to the body and removal of barriers that continue to impede its ability to effectively oversee the Canadian military police. The Commission has alleged continued lack of accountability on the part [...]

The nationalist Bloc Québécois party (the Bloc) introduced a bill Tuesday in the Canadian parliament to repeal the Clarity Act, in an effort to make it easier for Quebec to secede from Canada. The bill is short and succinct, and contains only one section, calling for the repeal of the Clarity Act, with a preamble [...]

The Canadian Teachers’ Federation on Tuesday called on governments to engage in meaningful labor negotiations and refrain from invoking the “notwithstanding clause.” The statement urged all governments to respect teachers’ labor rights, including the right to association, collective bargaining and strike. The group called on the government to engage in good-faith negotiations with education workers [...]

The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), Don Davies, introduced a bill to ban floor-crossing without voters’ consent on Tuesday. The bill comes after five lawmakers left their original party and joined the Liberal Party, giving it a majority at the House of Commons. If passed in its current form, Bill C-278 will automatically [...]