The EU on Monday referred  Poland to the Court of Justice of the EU due to a new law that would force 27 Supreme Court judges to retire. Poland’s new law lowers the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65, which would require that 27 out of 72 sitting Supreme Court judges [...]

UN experts on Monday accused  Kyrgyzstan of continuous human rights violations for failing to assist victims of abduction, rape and forced marriage. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women  conducted a confidential inquiry into “bride kidnapping” after receiving allegations from 14 organizations alleging the Kyrgyzstan has failed to prosecute perpetrators of “bride [...]

An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the arrest of two sons of former president Hosni Mubarak  on charges of stock market manipulation, according to state news media. The Cairo criminal court indicted  Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, along with seven others, for “violating stock market and central bank rules to make unlawful profits through dealing in [...]

A federal judge ruled  Tuesday that US securities laws may cover an initial coin offering (ICO), allowing the government to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency. The ruling came in the criminal case of US v. Zaslavskiy  where Zaslavskiy is charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors [...]

UN investigators released a report  on Wednesday detailing the use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces during an ongoing civil war, which has contributed to the displacement of more than one million civilians in six months. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic  documented multiple war crimes by the Syrian government, [...]

A Russian rights group on Monday reported  that more than 1,000 people were detained at anti-government protests across the nation. The OVD-Info group , which tracks police detentions, said that 1,018 people were detained during multiple Sunday demonstrations against Russian pension reform that plans to increase the ages at which citizens can collect their state [...]

The new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria voiced concern Monday about abuses worldwide, specifically addressing the US’ separation of migrant families. In an opening statement  to the 39th session of the Human Rights Council , Bachelet stated that while the US has halted its “unconscionable practice” of separating immigrant children from their [...]

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi  on Wednesday reported  serious human rights violations documented in the first year of its mandate have remained consistent throughout 2017 and 2018. The violations include cases of “summary execution, enforced disappearance, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, sexual violence, and violations of [...]

Two UN expert committees on human rights on Wednesday endorsed  a joint statement  urging states to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants amid recent mass migration from the South American country. The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, along with the Committee on the Rights [...]

A food company and and advocacy organization filed a lawsuit  on Wednesday after Missouri enacted legislation  that would prohibit producers of meat-alternatives from using the word “meat” in advertising and marketing. Vegan brand Tofurky and food-advocacy group Good Food Institute (GFI) brought the suit before the US District court for the Western District of Missouri . In [...]