Citing racist comments from the president, a federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from canceling temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Sudanese who face dangers in their home countries.
Read moreBritain’s looming exit from the European Union does not delegitimize an arrest warrant executed on that country’s behalf for a man accused of rape, murder and arson, the EU’s top court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreLast year it was Poland, now it’s Hungary’s turn to face sanctions from the European Union. The European Parliament voted Wednesday to initiate proceedings to sanction Hungary, a member state accused of passing laws that undermine the rule of law and violate democratic values and human rights.
Read moreAfghan rights workers warned Tuesday that the U.S. national security adviser’s blistering attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those carrying out acts of violence.
Read moreThe United States is pledging to use “any means necessary” to protect American citizens and allies from International Criminal Court prosecution.
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The fate of a strategic, and secretive, U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, and the small population forced off the Chagos archipelago to make way for that military base, is in the hands of a United Nations court in The Hague.
Read moreCalling attention to a human rights crisis in Nicaragua, the United Nations says that the government’s response to widespread April protests has been to carry out extrajudicial killings, torture and other abuses.
Read moreMalaysia’s new government on Thursday repealed a widely criticized law prohibiting “fake news,” in a move hailed as a landmark moment for human rights by a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers.
Read moreA court in Istanbul has ordered the release of the former Turkey chairman of Amnesty International, the rights group reported Wednesday.
Read moreChina insisted Monday there is no “arbitrary detention” and there are no “re-education centers” in its western Xinjiang region, rejecting concerns raised by a U.N. human rights committee that more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs may be being held in camps.
Read moreParting with the advice of its magistrate, the European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday prison conditions must be assessed before prisoners can be extradited – regardless of the prisoner’s newly minted opportunity to challenge inhuman conditions in court.
Read moreThe act of war on Tuesday became a crime that the International Criminal Court can prosecute, though the court’s reach is severely limited because many of the world’s mightiest nations, including the United States, do not recognize the new international law.
Read moreClarifying rules on the execution of European arrest warrants, a magistrate said Thursday that courts must make specific inquiries into whether the person being extradited is at risk of justice abuses.
Read moreThe sudden U.S. departure from the U.N. Human Rights Council has left the international peacekeeping body in unknown territory about how to fill the vacant seat.
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the number of refugees worldwide is “simply unthinkable” and that people fleeing is “a central global question of our time.”
Read moreThe United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, one day after that organization’s chief slammed U.S. immigration policy as “unconscionable.”
Read moreBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has defended the U.N.’s main human rights body, alluding to signs the U.S. may withdraw from it over its alleged bias against Israel.
Read moreVietnamese authorities released from prison and expelled a prominent human rights lawyer and another dissident, both of whom were sent to Germany, a pro-democracy group said.
Read moreBelarus has named a new ambassador to Sweden, turning the page on a six-year rift that followed a Swedish advertising agency’s air drop of teddy bears bearing messages about human rights.
Read moreAs New York’s highest court closed the book on an effort to endow chimpanzees with human rights, vying to free two from captivity, a judge emphasized that the philosophical quandary underpinning the suit remains.
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