Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday on the grave impact of humanitarian aid cutbacks on the education crisis in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. The group urged the country’s interim government to lift restrictions on refugees and intergovernmental agencies to include Rohingya educators in the decision-making process. In early June, the decline in foreign humanitarian assistance [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the US District Court for the District of Maryland and all 15 of its judges Tuesday over an order issued last month that automatically blocks for two business days the deportation of migrants in the state who file a new lawsuit challenging their detention. According to the court, the [...]
A new report by the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls released Tuesday has warned that the disproportionate care burden on women is a barrier to their advancement in society. The report calls for care work to be recognized, reallocated and remunerated through public investment and structural reform. Though highly valuable, care [...]
Judges Amy St. Eve and Michael Scudder appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government on Tuesday for a discussion centered around the fiscal accountability and oversight of the federal courts. The judges spoke on topics such as calls for impeachment of federal judges, budgetary concerns, and the need for increased [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset on Wednesday agreed to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, following Europe’s endorsement of the proposal in May. The agreement, which will be supported by all 46 Council of Europe member states, will establish a tribunal [...]
Several organizations signed a joint statement on Wednesday, calling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to take action put an end to the use of the death penalty for drug-related offenses. The 70 organizations that signed the joint statement published by Amnesty International urged [...]
Vietnam’s 15th National Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to abolish the death penalty for eight categories of criminal offenses: embezzlement, bribery, counterfeiting medicines, espionage, drug trafficking, vandalism of state property, sabotage, and acts aimed at overthrowing the government. Out of the 439 delegates present, 429 voted in favor, representing nearly 90 percent of the legislature. [...]
A group of 21 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to declare that a key tool President Donald Trump’s administration has relied on to cancel federal grants is being used unlawfully. The complaint said that the states have lost billions of dollars for crime prevention, education, medical and scientific [...]
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Tuesday said that Serbia needs to take further action to “protect people deprived of their liberty from torture and ill-treatment.” During a week-long mission to Serbia, the SPT visited prisons, police cells, remand centers and homes for the elderly and children. The delegation also conducted interviews [...]
Hong Kong Deputy High Court Judge Frankie Yiu refused to grant leave for a constitutional challenge against a provision criminalizing the incitement of casting invalid votes. In the judgment issued Tuesday, Judge Yiu ruled that the challenge is not reasonably arguable because the provision is necessary to improve the electoral framework. The impugned provision is [...]
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