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Dec 11, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
Hundreds of protestors in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi were hit by police with tear gas on Tuesday as they protested a nationwide swell in gender-based violence and femicide. Marking Human Rights Day, protestors marched towards Parliament to demand justice for victims and to hold perpetrators accountable by prioritizing investigations and instituting stronger protection mechanisms. On their way, police used teargas in an attempt to disperse the protestors.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced Tuesday that he would lift martial law and that troops deployed following the shocking declaration would be withdrawn, succumbing to united Parliamentary and public pressure against the declaration.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced Tuesday that he would lift martial law and withdraw deployed troops following united parliamentary and public pressure against his declaration of martial law earlier in the day.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
Human Rights Watch on Monday demanded that Ethiopian authorities immediately reverse the suspension of three human rights organizations–the Centre for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD), the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE), and Lawyers for Human Rights in Ethiopia (LHR)–so that they can freely operate.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
Brazilian federal police said on Tuesday they foiled a plot to assassinate the president-elect and overthrow the government, arresting five suspects who allegedly planned to execute the incoming leader and a Supreme Court justice before the January inauguration.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa issued an interim order on Sunday allowing emergency personnel access to an abandoned mine in Stilfontein, where illegal miners have been remained from fear of prosecution, prevented from receiving civilian aid by a police blockade. On the urgent request of the Society for the Protection of our Constitution (SAPC), the South African court ordered that the abandoned gold mine should not be blocked and that the miners should be allowed to exit.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon formally apologized in Parliament on Tuesday for decades of abuse in state and faith-based care. During the live-streamed session, Luxon extended a “formal and unreserved apology” to survivors and their families.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
The New Zealand government announced on Monday that new legislation will be introduced to criminalize stalking by the end of the year. A conviction will see offenders facing up to 5 years in prison. Stalking is currently not a crime under New Zealand’s Crimes Act 1961. With the introduction of the amendment, stalking will be defined to capture three acts within the span of 12 months that fall under a list of captured behaviours.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office arrested eight people on Tuesday under suspected membership of a neo-Nazi militant group known as “Sächsische Separatisten” or “Saxon Separatists,” the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a press statement. The arrests were made under section 129a of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the formation of terrorist organisations directed to the commission of human rights violations and other crimes. Jörg S.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
jurist.org | Emma Burns
The government of Serbia announced a day of mourning on Saturday after a railway station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad on Friday, with protesters assembling outside the government building in Belgrade with hands painted red to demand answers following the tragedy amid allegations of corruption and negligence. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dačić came forward on Sunday to offer further detail into the efforts of the government to determine who was responsible.
