The UK will introduce new amendments to its Domestic Abuse Bill this week in an effort to expand protection from non-fatal strangulation, post-separation coercive control and revenge pornography, according to a Monday statement from the Home Office. The Home Office announced the proposed amendments to the bill on its website, with three main changes. The first proposed [...]

New Zealand iwi Ngāti Maru signed a deed of settlement with the Crown on Friday, settling its historical Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) claims. Ngāti Maru is the last of eight iwi in Taranaki, a North Island region, to settle its historical Treaty of Waitangi claims. The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, [...]

The New Zealand government announced Sunday that it will pass legislation banning conversion therapy practices in the country by the end of this year or February next year at the latest. Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi confirmed that the Ministry of Justice is drafting a new piece of legislation to effect the change by making [...]

The 23rd High Criminal Court of Istanbul on Monday sentenced four former employees of the pro-Kurdish daily newspaper Özgür Gündem, shut down by a Turkish court order in 2016, to imprisonment on terrorism charges. Eren Keskin, a Turkish lawyer prominent in human rights spheres, received a six-year sentence for “membership of an armed terrorist organization.” [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday upheld the conviction of Sasa Ćurčić, a former Bosnian Serb Army solider who served in the Dragan Nikolic Interventions Unit, for the rape of a woman in 1992 during the Bosnian War. The judgment in Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina v Sasa Ćurčić was released by [...]

China formally arrested Australian journalist Cheng Lei on Friday “on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.” The formal arrest comes six months after Lei was first taken into custody under controversial Chinese detention laws. Australian Senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne issued a statement announcing the formal arrest, noting that “he Australian [...]

There is a “very credible case” that the Chinese government has committed acts against the Uighur population in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that constitute genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a 105-page legal opinion published Monday. The Global Legal Action Network, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project instructed [...]

Twelve Australian media companies pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria Monday to contempt of court for breaching a gag order imposed by the County Court of Victoria preventing Cardinal George Pell from being named in the country as a convicted child sex offender until February of 2019. The guilty pleas are part of [...]

The New Zealand government announced Sunday that it is introducing a new government bill to improve Māori representation in local government as the country prepares for the 2022 local council elections. The Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill is spearheaded by the Minister of Local Government Nanaia Mahuta. According to a fact [...]

Consumer rights organization Euroconsumers announced Monday that it is coordinating a third class action lawsuit against Apple Inc. over the technology giant’s planned iPhone obsolescence. The lawsuit was filed in Italy and “seeks compensation of at least €60 on average for owners of iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S and 6S Plus.” Euroconsumers is taking action [...]