International Law

Igal uses the online platform Booking.com to advertise his holiday apartment. But human rights lawyers want the practice banned and allege Booking.com is breaking international law.

Israel has released 54 Palestinian prisoners it held in detention during its war in Gaza, including the director of the enclave's Al-Shifa Hospital, Mohammad Abu Selmeyah.

As Julian Assange starts his new life with his family in Australia, details are emerging about the deal that secured his freedom.

In Russia American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been charged with gathering secret information for the CIA.

Now Julian Assange has spent his first 24 hours home in Australia, the backstory of how his release was negotiated can be told by his lawyer Jennifer Robinson.

Julian Assange has been convicted under the US Espionage Act, with his guilty plea enabling him to come home to Australia. Here's a recap of the situation to get you up to speed.

Julian Assange has spent his first night home in Australia, after a legal saga that has lasted more than a decade. Assange's team says he is now a free man, and his wife says their reunion was a moment only an image can describe.

Prosecutors say the Wall Street Journal reporter gathered secret information on the orders of the US Central Intelligence Agency about a company that manufactures tanks for Russia's war in Ukraine. If convicted, he faces a sentence of up to 20 years.

The WikiLeaks founder was originally facing 18 charges, but he's only been convicted of one. Here's what we know about it. 

The news of the WikiLeaks founder's freedom appears to be the end of a saga that goes back to 2010. Here's a recap of the last 14 years to get you up to speed.

Hundreds of people have turned out at a Perth beach on Saturday afternoon to pay tribute to brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, who were killed while on a surfing trip in Mexico.

A crime ring smuggling drugs into Europe has collapsed after a three-year investigation with 40 arrests made.

A former federal South Australian senator representing customers of a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence says compensation offers made to passengers on the flight is "mean and miserable".

A British judge who recently resigned from Hong Kong's top court warns the territory is "slowly becoming a totalitarian state" with its rule of law "profoundly compromised."

The Italian court found Knox wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked, of the 2007 killing. 

Khan, 71, had been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a lower court on charges of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022.

Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun declares Beijing will use force to stop Taiwanese independence during an address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. His comments come one week after China held military drills and warned of war following the inauguration of new Taiwan President Lai Ching-te.

Palestinian civilians in Gaza hoped that last week's ruling from the International Court of Justice might represent a turning point, but it has quickly turned into an argument about legal interpretation and world order.

After years of legal battles in their own countries, First Nations activists from around the world are working together to shine a global spotlight on the systemic failure to protect Indigenous fishing rights worldwide.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says the Cook government's botched rollout and reversal of changes to the state's heritage laws could constitute a breach of international convention.

Fighting has continued in Gaza despite judges at the top United Nations court ordering Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military assault on Rafah, where it says it is trying to root out Hamas fighters.

Rulings in the UN's top court are considered binding, but enforcing them is another story. Just minutes after the ICJ ordered Israel to stop its assault on Rafah, the IDF bombed the city again. 

Former US marine pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan, an Australian citizen, is accused of helping train Chinese military pilots more than a decade ago, which relate to his work at the Test Flying Academy of South Africa.

The federal treasurer says there is "no equivalence" between the actions of Hamas and Israel's president, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese avoided saying so yesterday.

Amal Clooney is arguably one of the most famous faces of human rights law. However, social media users grew frustrated in recent months by what they claimed was her silence on the Israel-Gaza war. Those critics have now been silenced.