On December 6th, the British law firm, Mishcon de Reya, announced the start of “coordinated legal actions on behalf of victims and survivors of the Rohynga genocide.” The actions were filed in the U.K. and U.S., alleging that “Facebook’s negligence encouraged and facilitated the genocide carried out by the Myanmar
On November 24th, Al Jazeera confirmed the deaths of 27 refugees and asylum seekers who were trying to cross the English Channel with an inflatable dinghy. This has been labelled the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the sea separating France and the United Kingdom – yet it is
On November 2nd, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai publicly accused her country’s former vice premier of sexual assault. This has, according to the New York Times, ignited an “online firestorm of attention to a #MeToo allegation that for the first time touched the pinnacles of political power.” On an online
On October 6th, 2021, the non-profit organisation, Lighthouse Reports, published evidence which reveals that migrants have been beaten and shot at in recent months during so-called ‘pushback’ operations carried out by masked men in Croatia, Romania, and Greece. The report claims that while the clothes of these masked men have
On October 8th, Poland’s constitutional court held that certain sections of European Union treaties are incompatible with the Polish constitution, escalating ongoing tension with the bloc. According to the BBC, the European Commission maintained that the judgment raises serious concerns about the primacy of EU law, and challenges the foundations
In the aftermath of the brutal murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, the U.K. government is facing difficult questions about police reforms and the issues regarding women’s safety on U.K. streets. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called the police’s failure to take sexual violence against women seriously ‘infuriating’, according
On July 24th, 2021, the BBC reported the UK’s proposal to abandon all current and future criminal prosecutions relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Between 1969 and 1998, more than 3,500 people died until the Good Friday Agreement peace deal was signed between the Catholic community, the Protestant community,
It has been eight months since the military junta in Myanmar were able to seize power in a coup, detaining members of the government, and declaring a year-long state of emergency. The aftermath of that coup has been eight months of violence, labeled by The Diplomat as an “all-out war
On August 16th, the B.B.C. reported that the Taliban now controls all key cities in Afghanistan, including Kabul. Many Afghans fear that the Taliban will reimpose its brutal 1996-2001 regime, which, according to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, violently disregarded international human rights law –
