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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 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 ...
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...
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...
Countries have split into two broad legal approaches to : criminal prohibition, mainly across much of Europe and in and , aimed at preventing hate and protecting memory; and permissive free‑speech reg...
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 weight of public reporting, flight records, inquiries and a unanimous ruling establishes that the ran a secret detention site in and that CIA-chartered landed there between 2003 and 2005, moving “...
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...
A final "" regulation would face predictable, multi‑front legal assault grounded in Charter rights to privacy and data protection, established precedents against generalized surveillance, and principl...
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...
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...
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...
The – extradition framework requires the requesting state to respect two core legal constraints: the rule of specialty, which limits prosecution to offenses for which extradition was granted unless th...
A patchwork of EU member states explicitly criminalise , but the scope and sanctions differ widely: some countries (notably and ) impose prison terms including multi‑year maximums, others rely on fine...
and Scottish courts have approached by foreign military forces cautiously, anchoring decisions in established legal presumptions against extraterritoriality while recognising exceptions where the stat...