Nine Western embassies, including the US, criticized a controversial security bill in South Sudan that allows the government to detain people without warrants on Thursday. The joint statement issued by the Embassies of Canada, the EU, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US expressed “grave concern” over South Sudan’s passage of [...]

Former veterans minister and ex-officer Johnny Mercer is facing potential imprisonment for refusing to disclose names of soldiers who allegedly told him about unlawful killings and cover-ups by UK special forces during the Afghanistan War, The Afghanistan Inquiry has said.  In a ruling released on Thursday, Judge Haddon-Cave, Chair of the Inquiry notes in his [...]

The Regional Human Rights Advisory Foundation (Inredh) of Ecuador on Thursday presented its report on human rights violations under Executive Decree 111, in which it recorded 45 cases of violations perpetrated by public officials. The NGO’s 28-page report documents and analyses complaints made by citizens from January 8 to April 8 of this year, which [...]

Leading UK rights organizations called on the new Labour government in a joint letter Thursday to take immediate action to cease the United Kingdom’s complicity in what they term as Israel’s ongoing atrocity crimes against Palestinians. Addressing newly-appointed Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Foreign Secretary, and the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, the [...]

Indonesia’s Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced former agriculture minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo to 10 years in prison over graft charges on Thursday, according to local outlet The Jakarta Post. Judge Rianto Adam Pontoh said Limpo was fined and ordered to compensate 300 million rupiah and about 14.6 billion rupiah, respectively. The court found Limpo guilty of [...]

The Utah Supreme Court unanimously decided Thursday that Utah citizens have a constitutional right to reform their government in response to past redistricting efforts to divide Salt Lake City into four congressional districts, resulting in Republicans winning by a large margin. The Utah League of Women Voters alleged that the Republicans in the state legislature have [...]

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) released a report on Thursday which concluded that Jews in Europe face high levels of antisemitism, partially driven by the conflict in Gaza. More than 90 percent of Jews participating in the survey stated that they faced antisemitism in the last year and 80 percent felt that [...]

A Moscow court upheld the February sentence against Nobel Human Rights laureate Oleg Orlov on Thursday for criticizing the war in Ukraine and comparing the Russian justice system to Nazi Germany. Oleg Orlov is a Russian human rights activist and a co-chairman of the “Memorial” human rights center, recognized as a foreign agent in the [...]

President William Ruto on Thursday dismissed his cabinet and the attorney general, save for the deputy president and the Prime Cabinet Secretary (PCS). In a televised press release, the president directed that in the absence of these cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries would coordinate the ministries until the next cabinet is constituted. According to the president: [...]

Professor Andrew Clapham of the Geneva Graduate Institute is a leading expert in the interplay of war and international law. In his timely new book “War,” Clapham explores the modern relevance of the concept of war and how it shapes our understanding of rights and obligations in both national and international law, questioning whether the [...]