UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria is moving to file an intervention application in the India Supreme Court to seek review of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), an official spokesperson for India said Tuesday. The application requests that the court review the CAA with regard to international human rights law and the [...]

A UN report published Wednesday found that in 2019, killings of women activists in Colombia increased by 50 percent and a total of 108 human rights defenders were killed. The UN documented specific killings of citizens who defended the rights of their communities. For instance, a woman named Magdelena was killed for defending land allocation and [...]

The New York state bar application will no longer ask questions inquiring into mental health, Chief Judge Janet DiFore announced Wednesday. DiFore made the announcement during her State of the Judiciary address. The goal is to protect law students seeking admission to the New York bar who are dealing with depression, anxiety and other mental health [...]

Pakistan’s Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan resigned Thursday after facing pressure from lawyer associations over controversial statements about the supreme court bench. The controversial statements were expunged from court records. Khan reportedly made the statements while representing the federal government in a case against Justice Faez Isa before the supreme court. Isa is on trial [...]

A senior UN official claimed Sunday at a press conference held in Munich that countries are violating the Libya arms embargo and that they must be held accountable. UN Deputy Special Representative to Libya Stephanie Williams said that “the arms embargo has become a joke.” Libya is currently the center of an international armed conflict.  [...]

Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza made a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor on Thursday to investigate US sanctions imposed on Venezuela as crimes against humanity.  US economic sanctions on Venezuela have allegedly affected people’s rights to health, food and economic development. The US has long imposed sanctions on Venezuela. Most recently, the Trump [...]

The Bangui Court of Appeal on Friday sentenced 28 militiamen to prison for a massacre committed in Bangassou and other areas of the country’s southeast in May 2017.  The victims in the massacre included dozens of Muslims and 10 UN Peacekeepers. The militia that committed the killings is the majority-Christian Anti-Balaka militia. The prison sentences ranged [...]

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that protects the right of workers to unionize.  The bill, known as The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), was passed by a 224-193 vote. The final vote was mainly along party lines. The bill would amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor [...]

Brasilia-based Judge Ricardo Leite rejected a motion to proceed with cybercrime charges against American journalist Glenn Greenwald on Thursday.  In his decision, Leite invoked an earlier injunction granted by Judge Gilmar Mendes in the Supreme Court that prohibited investigations into Greenwald. Mendes cited constitutional freedoms of press and expression, as well as invoked the UN Declaration [...]

Thirty Afghan media outlets called on the government in a protest letter on Tuesday to stop “severe limitations in access to information.”  They also called on the international community as well as media support organizations to safeguard the flow of government-related information, press freedom and democracy. The media outlets claim that the worst institutions to provide [...]