The European Commission and the UK imposed sanctions Monday on members of the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and companies connected to the Myanmar military over the coup d’état that has devastated the country since early February. The EU sanctioned eight individuals, three economic entities and the War Veterans Organization. The individuals include the Attorney General, [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, in a statement delivered Monday at the forty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council. Bachelet said that Eritrean soldiers in Tigray “perpetrate violations of human rights and humanitarian law.” The UN estimates that more than 350,000 persons in Tigray are [...]
South Korean women and girls who have been victims of digital sex crimes are facing major barriers to justice in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a new report Wednesday. The report, entitled “My Life is Not Your Porn: Digital Sex Crimes in South Korea” found that digital sex crimes, usually perpetrated against women [...]
Dr Johnny Ryan, Senior Fellow of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (the Council) brought a legal action in the Hamburg District Court over secret dossiers on Wednesday. While the lawsuit specifically targets technology giants including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, as well as cellphone service providers, it aims more broadly to challenge online advertising [...]
Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, argued Monday that a local journalist should pay him aggravated damages for defaming him. The journalist, Rubaashini Shunmuganathan, did not appear at the virtual damages assessment hearing on Monday. Shunmuganathan was found liable for defamation in default of appearance in late 2019. She works for The Online [...]
Justice Rekha Palli in the Delhi High Court in India ordered US social media giant Twitter to comply with the country’s recently-enacted technology rules on Monday after it allegedly failed to appoint a Resident Grievance Officer (RGO). A petition to the court alleged Twitter had not been complying with the new rules when Twitter user [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s ousted State Counsellor, attended court on Monday for the first time since the military junta overthrew the democratically elected government in early February. Monday’s hearing was also her first public appearance since the coup d’état. Suu Kyi’s court attendance was a big step as all of her previous attendances have [...]
New Zealand is rolling out a community-focused justice model in its District Courts, one of four major courts in the mainstream hierarchy, according to a statement from the Chief District Court Judge Heemi Taumaunu published Sunday. The model is known as the Te Ao Mārama model, meaning “the enlightened world.” The model “signals a deliberate [...]
The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) found Monday that Myanmar’s general election held in 2020 represented the will of the citizenry and that the military coup lacked justifiable grounds. The NGO’s 176-page report, entitled “The 2020 Myanmar General Elections: Democracy Under Attack,” noted ANFREL’s satisfaction with Myanmar’s 2020 general election, which attracted 27.5 million [...]
The Chilean citizenry voted over the weekend in favor of independent candidates to rewrite the constitution. For the first time, voters were invited to have their say on who rewrites their country’s constitution. There will be 155 delegates working on the rewrite in a group called the Constitutional Convention. Most delegates voted in are independent. [...]
