In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees, lawmakers in Denmark approved a bill Thursday adding a provision to the Danish criminal code that forbids a person from wearing face-concealing clothing in public mainly to include those wearing burqas. The prohibition does not apply to the covering of the face which, the law defines, as serving [...]
There is a reasonable basis to believe that Venezuelan government has committed crimes against humanity since at least 2012, according to the Organization of American States (OAS) . After releasing a 400-page report from a panel of independent experts, the OAS will be turning over its findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for government [...]
Amnesty International (AI) denounced the “systematic ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy of President Ortega’s government” in a press release on Wednesday. The statement follows an AI report published the day before that detailed the Nicaraguan government’s tactics to suppress protesters. The organization especially criticized the government’s use of firearms to subdue protesters. “Security forces are authorized to use [...]
The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that Lithuania and Romania had violated articles of the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing secret CIA prisons. Lithuania violated the article against torture, the right to liberty and security, the right to respect for private life and the right to an effective remedy. Lithuania had [...]
Women in Afghanistan are often pressured to pursue mediation for violent crimes, and officials are often reluctant to file criminal charges against the accused, even for so-called “honor killings” according to a UN report released Tuesday. After a two-year period of observation in Afghanistan from January 2016 to December 2017, the UN Assistance Mission in [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that Syrian Law No. 10 of 2018 will allow the government to take private property without compensation, which will discourage refugees from returning to the war-devastated country. The new law allows the government to create redevelopment zones, which allows the government to seize the land in that area if [...]
Pakistan’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, passed a Constitutional amendment Thursday that merges a region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province along Pakistan’s northwest Afghanistan border. The move extends a number of political, administrative, and human rights reforms to the FATA, and extends jurisdiction of [...]
Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Thursday accusing the Nigerian military of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during its fight against Islamic insurgency Boko Haram. The 89-page report , which is based on hundreds of interviews, gives accounts of abuses including rape, torching villages and indiscriminate killings. With the support of the [...]
Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed several multi-billion euro complaints in courts around Europe against Google (Android), Facebook, and two Facebook subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram Friday—the same day as EU data protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , went into effect. Combined, the lawsuits seek to fine a total 6.7 billion [...]
Amnesty International (AI) responded to the arrest of prominent human rights defender Mohammed al-Bajadi in Saudi Arabia on Friday, pointing out the arrest as continuation of the country’s crack down on human rights. Mohammed al-Bajadi founded the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), which was shut down by Saudi authorities after its continued campaigns [...]
