The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced in a press release on Tuesday that 31 written statements have been filed concerning whether workers have a right to strike under a key International Labor Organization convention. The written statements follow the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) request for an urgent advisory opinion from [...]

The German Federal Ministry of Interior published a report on Tuesday by the country’s federal domestic intelligence agency, designating the Palestinian civil society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) a “suspected extremist case.” According to the report, BDS was founded in 2005 with the support of over 170 Palestinian-affiliated organizations, including the Council of National and Islamic [...]

South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Tuesday that soldiers fired warning shots to repel North Korean soldiers who violated the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) by about 20 meters. Around 20-30 North Korean soldiers, while engaging in unspecified construction work on the northern side of the border, crossed the Demilitarised Zone dividing the [...]

Geneva-based NGO Border Forensics released a counter-investigation report on Tuesday claiming that the deaths of 37 migrants in June 2022 along Morocco’s border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla were caused by the actions of both countries’ law enforcement agents. On June 24, 2022, at least 37 people lost their lives when a group of African [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Russia had violated the right to freedom of expression by refusing access to archival documents about the history of Soviet political repression. Suprun and Others v. Russia is part of the ‘right to truth’ cases against Russia. The applicants—Russian researchers, the niece of a Swedish [...]

Ninety-three member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) declared their “unwavering support” for the court to independently carry out its professional duties, in a joint statement published on Monday. The statement comes after several ICC members have been threatened, particularly ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan after he declared to seek arrest warrants against Israeli Prime [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) found Tuesday that the state of Alaska violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide accessible voting facilities in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Voters across Alaska reported that the accessible voting machines were inoperable on Election Day during the 2020 and 2022 [...]

A group of human rights organizations in a joint statement released on Tuesday called on the government of Tunisia to end its recent crackdown on free speech and free association and to uphold respect for human rights as attacks on journalists, lawyers and human rights groups have “significantly escalated” in the last month. Amnesty International, [...]

Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s senior Kenya correspondent. She files this from Nairobi. What is democracy? At its core, democracy embodies the will of the people. While definitions may vary, democracy is fundamentally a system of governance where the people’s voices are not only heard, but honored. In a true democracy, laws are crafted to serve [...]

A mayor-elect was shot and killed on Monday in the southern Mexcian state of Guerrero, according to a statement by the State Prosecutor’s office. Salvador Villalva Flores, returning from a trip to Mexico City, was traveling on the highway on the bus when he was fatally shot in the town of San Pedro de las [...]