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Amnesty International has called for a fund to remedy the harms faced by communities affected by climate change to be established after higher-income states missed a deadline to nominate their representatives to its board. Following the hottest year ever recorded globally the need for action is "acu

The UK has said it will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in a move welcomed by climate campaigners who say the treaty is an obstacle to climate action. Signed in 1994, the ECT was designed to promote international investment in the energy sector, historically providing protections for i

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Detained Saudi activist 'cut off' from family contact

Emma Curryer (lecturer in law) and Gillian Mawdsley (associate law lecturer, Criminal Justice Clinic, and the Open University) explain the details of vicarious trauma training. For students who were undertaking our pro bono clinical legal education project, we identified a need for providing vicario

The High Court of Justiciary has refused an appeal by a man convicted of anally raping his ex-girlfriend when they were both 15 after finding that the jury would not have been confused by certain statements made by the prosecution. Counsel for the appellant, EM, argued that the jury lacked clarity o

A ban on the sale and supply of single-use vapes in Scotland is due to come into effect on 1 April 2025, under proposed legislation published today. The move takes forward the recommendation to ban single use vapes from a consultation on ‘Creating a Smokefree Generation and Tackling Youth Vapi

Trump supporters have begun crowdfunding $355 million to cover a penalty imposed on the former president by a New York court — and have raised just over $1 million so far. Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay the eye-watering $354.8m sum in damages after finding that he and his sons fraud

Belgium has become the first country in Europe to criminalise ecocide on a national and international level. A new penal code backed by Belgium's federal parliament yesterday provides for imprisonment of up to 20 years for individuals guilty of ecocide, and fines of up to €1.6 million for corpo

Westminster's Joint Committee on Human Rights has announced that it will visit Rwanda to inform its work into the human rights implications of the UK’s asylum strategy.

New laws on regulating the Scottish legal sector can be strengthened further to better protect the public, the Law Society of Scotland has said. A majority of MSPs voted today to agree to the principles of the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) following the bill's stage one debate in the Scott

As part of reforms to land ownership in Scotland, a new publicly accessible register with the details of anyone who controls decision-making on management, use, or development of land has been created and will come into force on 1 April 2024. Petra Grunenberg has the details. As part of the Sco

Transgender High Court judge Master Victoria McCloud has resigned as she fears that she risks making the judiciary political if she remains on the bench, The Times reports. Master McCloud, 54, told the senior judiciary she was quitting because “I am now political every time I choose where to p

A lord ordinary has found that a man living in England who livestreamed accusations that two brothers were involved in organised crime in Greenock was in contempt of an interdict issued by the Court of Session in May 2023 ordering him to cease defaming them. The respondent, Paul Hendry, had attempte