The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow older victims of childhood sexual abuse more time to seek legal redress. The legislation would lift a limitation for accusers over the age of 30 from seeking legal action for abuses suffered when they were children. The bill also lifts entirely the [...]

Mexican human rights group National Commission for Human Rights on Wednesday accused Mexican police and federal troops in the extrajudicial killing of two alleged fuel thieves. “The scene was manipulated by placing high-caliber firearms beside the bodies,” claims the statement. “A crime, even one that was not yet proved, was matched with another crime.” The [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Wednesday that a British man charged with murder, rape and arson in the EU must still face trial although Brexit will nullify most other legal bonds his country shares with the EU. The British national, identified as only “RO” in court documents, allegedly committed murder, rape and arson [...]

UN investigators on Tuesday renewed their call for charges against Myanmar military officials who allegedly committed genocide against the nation’s minority Rohingya population in the past year. The UN Office of Human Rights published an exhaustive list of atrocities and called “for the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and [...]

South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday decriminalized personal consumption of marijuana. The judgement, written by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, says that because “the population have been accustomed for hundreds of years to the use of dagga , both as an intoxicant and in the belief that it has medicinal properties,” it can be considered [...]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that he would enter a bid to end judicial immunity for politicians, in an effort to end corruption. One hundred days after replacing his Conservative predecessor, Sánchez announced the initiative in an attempt to restore peoples’ confidence in politics. “The challenge we have is for citizens to believe [...]

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit signed a peace deal with rebel groups on Wednesday to bring an end to a seven-year-long civil war in the country which killed at least 50,000 people and made 2 million more homeless. Mediated by neighboring Sudan, the deal includes power-sharing structures, a reformed banking and military structure, and [...]

Lise Grande , head UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, said Thursday that the “situation has deteriorated dramatically in the past few days,” and “hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance,” in the port city of Hodeida. Hodeida is Yemen’s principal port on the Red Sea and the chief entry point for food imports. [...]

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday refused to retry a 1978 case regarding the torture of Irish “hooded men.” In 1971 14 men affiliated with the IRA were arrested and allegedly subject to inhumane interrogation methods inside the Ulster Constabulary. In 1976 the Irish government took the men’s cause [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court’s decision that had blocked Missouri laws imposing certain requirements on abortion providers. Missouri law required that clinics set up to provide abortions be designated as ambulatory surgery centers and that doctors who provide abortions must have admitting privileges at local [...]