Search Results for: 2014-08-08

A group of 40 survivors of a migrant boat sinking in Greek waters filed a criminal complaint Thursday against all parties they deem responsible for the tragedy, according to a press release from the survivors’ representatives. The survivors are also demanding a thorough investigation into the causes of the sinking and the authorities’ response. In [...]

Amnesty International, along with over 200 civil society organizations, called upon participating governments of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) on Wednesday to address the human rights records and climate policies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The COP28, an annual conference of governments from around the world to discuss climate policies, is scheduled [...]

Sexual assault in the US Armed Forces is a very real and prescient issue for all service members. In April 2023, the US Department of Defense (DoD) reported that in 2022 there had been “a roughly 1% increase in overall reports of sexual assaults” with all the service branches having seen an increase in reported [...]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed in his annual financial report made public Thursday that he accepted three trips from billionaire Harlan Crow in 2022. This disclosure was published after Thomas received political backlash for accepting extravagant gifts while serving on the United States Supreme Court. A previous report from ProPublica accused Thomas of accepting [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemned on Monday the nearly decade-long detention of former Delhi University professor and human rights activist GN Saibaba, who was arrested back in 2014 over his suspected links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). Lawlor called upon Indian authorities to release Saibaba from detention, calling his continued detention [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday to restrict the use of mifepristone, an abortion pill, by prohibiting its delivery by mail or prescription via telemedicine. However, the ruling will not take immediate effect due to an April ruling from the US Supreme Court temporarily protecting access to the drug. The [...]

“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959)           Whether conspicuous or obscure, terrorism generally presents itself as a systemic challenge. This means, inter alia, that seemingly singular strategic and legal matters may actually be many-sided and interrelated. Regarding legal issues, though [...]

The UK Electoral Commission said Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and that “hostile actors” were able to access copies of the electoral register, with the name and address of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The Electoral Commission’s Chief Executive Sean McNally apologized to people whose information was hacked, saying [...]

On Thursday, two human rights organisations called for an independent investigation into the actions of the Greek coast guard after the June sinking of a migrant vessel off the coast of Pylos, Greece, leaving at least 82 people declared dead. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch argue that the contested series of events require a [...]

Longtime Russian dissident and critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison Friday on а number of extremism-related charges after a closed-door hearing. The sentence prompted condemnation from multiple countries, international organizations and human rights groups. Interfax reported that the Moscow City Court convicted Navalny of organizing an extremist community, financing [...]