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UN experts on Wednesday urged Switzerland and other European Member States to increase their efforts in meeting their international commitments on mitigating climate change, a year since the landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The group of experts recommended that Switzerland and other European states refer to the guidance on intersectionality [...]

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” Israel must defend itself in both law and strategy. Though generally unacknowledged, this dual-level defense could prove gainful not just for Israel, but also for other “civilized nations” in world politics. A patently core obligation, it is universal in scope and justice-seeking in objective. Multiple [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday criticized the proposed European Union “Returns Regulation” for undocumented migrants as “cruel and unrealistic” for allowing longer detention and harsher treatment. The European Commission seeks to establish standardized return procedures so that returns of migrants can be more efficient while still respecting fundamental human rights. For instance, the proposed rule [...]

Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of secular considerations. Though far less decipherable and recognizable, these expressions may also include implicit promises of personal immortality. There is meaningful [...]

The EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) reported on Monday that asylum applications across the EU+ (the EU member states plus Norway and Switzerland) decreased by 11 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year. The decline interrupted a three-year trend of applications exceeding one million annually. The report attributed the drop primarily to a shift [...]

The Swedish Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that climate activist Greta Thunberg’s legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible. According to the Supreme Court press release, the case was assessed in stages. The Supreme Court first analyzed the precedents provided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The court also [...]

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Friday convicted oil company Trafigura, its former executive and two co-defendants for bribing an Angolan public official to obtain trade contracts. The trial level judgement, delivered by judges David Bouverat, Stephan Zenger and Maric Demont, found three of the defendants guilty of bribery, under article 322 of the Swiss [...]

Iran faced global criticism at the 48th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday, as member nations denounced the country’s treatment of women, crackdown on dissent, and widespread use of the death penalty. Nations including the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland raised serious concerns over [...]

The European Consumer Organization (BEUC) said Thursday that Meta’s current pay-or-consent strategy in the EU may violate consumer and data protection laws, urging relevant EU agencies to protect consumers immediately. The statement accused Meta of using ambiguous terms and confusing interfaces that do not allow users to consent freely to data collection. The organization also [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada announced on Thursday that it will hear a landmark challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21. The law was passed in 2019 and prohibits certain public sector employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols while on duty. Central to the case are Sections 2(a) and 15 of the [...]