On 16 July 2026 the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice — fifteen judges, none of them Spanish — delivered, through its President Koen Lenaerts, two long-awaited judgments on Organic Law 1/2024 of 10 June, the amnesty statute Spain enacted for the “institutional, political and social normalisation” of Catalonia.
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On 16 July, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) 28th anniversary, I wrote in these pages about the court’s deepest crisis yet — a crisis to which Europe’s own double standards, and its own governing bodies, contribute significantly.
This essay was written byElgene Lutshiti, Palesa Maloisane, and Thandeka Chauke, courtesy of The Global Movement Against Statelessness (GMAS), a content partner of Global Voices. This post is part of Global Voices’ July 2026 Spotlight series, “Statelessness.” This series offers insight into the issue of statelessness and how it hinders people’s freedom of movement, educational opportunities, political…
On 8 July 2026, Sadaka-The Ireland Palestine Alliance, and Al-Haq, a Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine, sent letters with an annexed position paper to Board Members of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). The letters and annex warned that the determination of the FAI, and its Board of Directors, to…
CommentaryBriMoPet / Pixabay Mob looting, forced documentation checks and roughly 160,000 displaced people are not a policing problem; they are a breach of the African Charter and the ICCPR.
Sotomayor denied a request by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to put on hold the judgment while they appeal a lower court’s decision to revive the case years after it had been dismissed. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of Americans killed or injured in those shootings and bombings in the Jerusalem…
South Africa’s governing coalition is facing one of its biggest tests yet after the Democratic Alliance (DA), the second-largest party in the Government of National Unity (GNU), asked the High Court to strike down the country’s controversial Expropriation Act, the same legislation that fuelled a diplomatic dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump and intensified concerns…
Spain has condemned the “selfish, polarising and unlawful” reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Safeguarding within the Church and in theInstitutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life(ICLSAL) is about authentic authority rooted in responsibility, accountability and transparency, and not about “importing secular governance into the Church”, African Catholic Sisters in the legal profession have been told.
There is perhaps no political phrase more symbolic of Paul Biya’s four decades in power than the famous expression attributed to him: “Na Caterpillar go move me for ya.” In plain English, the message was unmistakable: only a bulldozer could remove him from office. For years, that statement became more than a joke. It became the governing philosophy of a political system where retirement seemed optional, succession was taboo, and public office was treated less as a constitutional responsibility than a lifetime possession. Today, Cameroon finds itself confronting the irony of that statement. President Biya has now spent weeks away…
