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International court in Strasbourg, France, established by the European Convention on Human Rights
Denmark’s ban on full-face veils (burqa and niqab) was passed in 2018 and penalises coverings that conceal the face in public; critics say it violates freedom of religion and expression and disproport...
International law defines war crimes through treaties like the Rome Statute (which establishes the International Criminal Court) and the Geneva Conventions, and the United States has domestic statutes...
The Daily Mail (publisher Associated Newspapers Limited) has faced multiple libel and defamation lawsuits in recent years, resulting in settlements, damages, and both dropped and unsuccessful claims a...
Hollie Dance has been in multiple court battles: she and Archie Battersbee’s father took High Court and appeal cases in 2022 over withdrawal of their son’s life support, and those legal challenges wer...
Holocaust denial is a variety of claims that either minimize, excuse, or outright reject the historical facts of the Nazi genocide of Jews; scholars and institutions characterize it as a form of antis...
The clearest, documented CIA operation in Romania is the operation of a clandestine detention site codenamed “BLACK,” where the United States held and interrogated terrorism suspects between 2003 and ...
Denmark implemented a law banning full-face coverings, including the niqab and burqa, in public in 2018; the Danish parliament passed the bill on 31 May 2018 and the law entered into force on 1 August...
Switzerland faces competing narratives: some sources highlight , while official human rights reports portray . The evidence shows agreement on specific problems — racial profiling, climate-related hum...
France’s laïcité (secularism) means the state is neutral toward religion and generally forbids state agents from displaying faith in public roles; schools ban “conspicuous” religious symbols and recen...
Human-rights organisations generally oppose state mandates that force women to wear full-cover veils as a form of coercion and also often oppose blanket bans on face‑covering on freedom‑of‑religion gr...
Scientists broadly welcomed the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling that Switzerland breached citizens’ rights by failing to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, calling it a precedent that links climate...
International human‑rights bodies have repeatedly expressed strong concern about mandatory surgical castration and compulsory anti‑libidinal interventions, arguing they are often mutilating, irreversi...
England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and EU member states all centre rape offences on , but statutory wording, evidential rules, gender scope, and the threshold for proving lack of consent var...
European countries broadly criminalise certain forms of and many have explicit prohibitions on denialism—especially and —but the scope, protected characteristics and enforcement practices differ marke...
Courts across multiple jurisdictions have confronted Holocaust denial claims—especially the assertion that Nazi gas chambers did not exist—by treating denial as a falsifiable historical claim and asse...
A blanket claim that “this website is harmful to public discourse” cannot be upheld or rejected without site-specific evidence, but scholarly reporting identifies clear mechanisms by which online plat...
European responses to social-media hate speech combine supranational rules and national laws: the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and long-standing codes push platforms to identify and remove “illegal...
A small set of headline cases and doctrinal tests have shaped whether filmed consensual fetish acts fall outside First Amendment protection, but most litigation has split along two lines: U.S. courts ...
Denmark’s 2018 law banning full-face veils in public places placed it among a group of European states that have legislated against niqabs and burqas, but the scope, political framing and legal preced...
Recent, high-profile social media cases across Europe have not produced wholesale repeals of "insult" laws; instead they have catalyzed a wave of enforcement, platform obligations and piecemeal legisl...