UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that increased funding and international cooperation are needed to successfully combat human trafficking . Ban stressed that human trafficking affects victims in 124 countries despite the existence of political will and legal tools to root out human traffickers. The call came at the Stronger Partnership and Coordination to Stop [...]
North Korea last week executed its army chief of staff, General Ri Yong-gil, on corruption charges, according to media reports from South Korea. General Ri Young-gil served as the chief of the general staff for Kim Jong-un’s army since August 2013. It is believed the relationship between General Ri and Kim Jong-un began deteriorating in [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday that it would explore legal action to keep the Ferguson City Council from making changes to an agreement to reform its police department and municipal operations. The announcement came after the the city council in Ferguson, Missouri, voted Tuesday to unilaterally amend the agreement reached in January [...]
An Israeli court on Wednesday extended the 18-month jail sentence of former prime minister Ehud Olmert by one month. Olmert will serve five months for obstruction of justice concurrently with the sentence for bribery charges and one additional month consecutively . Olmert was convicted in March 2014 and sentenced to six years imprisonment on several [...]
Judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday accused Belgrade of not cooperating in their efforts to arrest three suspects charged with witness tampering. The UN tribunal issued arrest warrants for the three men, Petar Jojic, Vjerica Radeta and Jovo Ostojic, last January after charging them with allegedly “having threatened, [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the Obama administration delay enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) pending a resolution to legal challenges. The 5-4 decision was written in five identical orders to respond to five different stay applications brought by 29 states and state agencies. The order came [...]
The Maryland Senate on Tuesday overrode a veto by Governor Larry Hogan to pass bill that will allow felons to vote before they complete parole or probation. Sixty percent of the Democrat-dominated Senate voted in favor of overriding the veto, which is the exact amount required to do so. The bill will now become law [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus reported Tuesday that the country’s dismal human rights conditions have remained unchanged since the October presidential election. Miklós Haraszti, UN Special Rapporteur, reported human rights violations since the election that include harassment of those who attempted to practice their individual, civil, political and other rights. For example, freelance journalists [...]
US District Court Judge David Godbey on Monday rejected a Texas lawsuit seeking to halt the federal resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state. The federal judge ruled that Texas officials had failed to show a “substantial threat of irreparable injury” in the request for an injunction to stop further Syrian refugee resettlement. The lawsuit [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged the Sri Lankan government to investigate and locate thousands of civilians that went missing during the nation’s civil war. Speaking at the end of his mission to Sri Lanka, Zeid asked that the government quickly locate civilians that are missing and identify [...]
