The Puerto Rico Senate filed a lawsuit in the Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Monday to remove acting Governor Pedro Pierluisi. Former Governor Ricardo Rossello stepped down on Friday amidst a corruption scandal. Pierluisi was named Secretary of State, next in line to be governor. He was confirmed by the Puerto Rico House of Representatives [...]
Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights watch and TRIAL International reprimanded the government of Nepal on Monday for its failure to keep promises to victims of the armed conflict that had lasted over a decade. The organizations referred to the plans that the government of Nepal made to provide justice for victims [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday that she is shocked by the state of migrant children and adults held in detention centers in the US. Bachelet noted that groups of UN lawmakers have considered the detention of migrant children to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment that is in violation of [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday called for Venezuelan authorities to investigate the in-custody death of retired navy captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo, who was detained by unidentified armed men on June 21 and brought before a military tribunal June 28. Arévalo’s lawyers and relatives were not made aware of his arrest [...]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke (video and transcript) to parties of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on Monday, marking the 25th anniversary of the convention by urging greater conservation of the world’s oceans. The Secretary-General emphasized the current decline of the world’s oceans providing statistics and stating: Today, the oceans are [...]
Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau arrested Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former president Asif Ali Zardari Monday following an Islamabad High Court ruling rejecting his bail petition. Zardari is accused of creating and feeding money into fake bank accounts in a corruption scandal involving a number of Pakistani companies and other individuals. Prior to [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a creditor may be held in civil contempt for violating a bankruptcy court’s discharge order if there is no fair ground of doubt as to whether the order barred the creditor’s conduct. The case, Taggart v. Lorenzen, involved the petitioner Bradley Taggart, who had once owned an interest [...]
The UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) called for the release of its members following their arrest during a Kosovo police operation in northern Kosovo on Tuesday. The police operation, which involved activities in the regions of Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic, Mitrovica North, Mitrovica South, Skenderaj and Drenas culminated in both citizens and police officers of [...]
The Maldives High Court on Monday overturned ex-Vice President Ahmed Adeeb‘s conviction on terrorism charges and ordered a new trial and investigation into the alleged attempted assassination of former President Yameen Abdul Gayoom. Adeeb was arrested and originally convicted of corruption and attempted assassination and terrorism charges when an explosion occurred on Yameen’s boat in September [...]
Iran’s parliament approved a law Tuesday pronouncing the US Army’s Central Command (CENTCOM) a terrorist organization. The bill was passed in reaction to the US labeling Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization earlier in April. That was the first time in US history that the US has recognized another country’s military as a [...]
