The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Wednesday that Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga is appealing his recent conviction for war crimes. Katanga, the alleged commander of the Patriotic Resistance Forces in Ituri, an armed militia group from the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was convicted by the ICC last month [...]
A senior lawmaker in Nepal on Thursday stated that those found guilty of committing crimes committed during Nepal’s civil war could be granted amnesty due to the introduction of a new bill in parliament on Wednesday that aims to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a Commission on the Disappeared. The goal of [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday criticized a law passed by the Ukrainian parliament , saying that it violates judicial independence and should be struck down. The law, On Restoring Confidence in the Judiciary, sets forth circumstances under which a judge could be put through judicial review and face dismissal from holding judicial office. The [...]
Turkish government reinforced their ban of YouTube on Thursday, despite a Constitutional Court ruling last week that the ban was unlawful. The Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) said in a statement that the government measures blocking the website will remain in place. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed the ban on YouTube and Twitter [...]
Mediators involved in the city of Detroit bankruptcy proceedings announced Wednesday that they have reached a deal on over $388 million in bonds. The city will pay 74 cents for each dollar. The deal would eliminate only a small fraction of the $18 billion owed by Detroit and still requires the approval of Judge Steven [...]
The Dutch government on Thursday announced plans to compensate relatives of three men killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Each family will receive €20,000 euros (USD $27,734) as compensation for the deaths of their relatives. The decision came seven months after the Supreme Court ruled that the state is responsible for the deaths of [...]
The UN Joint Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNJHRO) released a report Wednesday detailing widespread sexual violence committed by government forces and rebel groups between January 2010 and December 2013 in the DRC. According to the report the UNJHRO documented 3,635 cases of sexual violence through its 18 field offices. [...]
Northwestern University on Wednesday asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to review a recent decision that the university’s football players have the right to unionize . The attorneys for Northwestern stated, “n this unprecedented decision, the Regional Director set out to alter the underlying premise upon which collegiate varsity sports is based.” The effort [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday declared Egypt’s continued detention of three Al Jazeera journalists charged with falsifying news and involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood “vindictive.” Al Jazeera English staff Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, are accused of supplying money, equipment and information to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that the government has been [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of North Carolina filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday seeking recognition of marriage from the state of North Carolina for three married, same-sex couples. In each couple, one member has a serious medical condition, and North Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban prevents the couples from the [...]
