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French lawmakers are set to debate a bill against gender-based and sexual violence. It aims to strengthen the entire process – from reporting crimes and investigation to protection and compensation for victims. The bill also targets online sexual abuse, including non-consensual content and AI-generated deepfakes. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin reports.

Gov Gavin Newsom called it a "long overdue measure to protect young Californians".

“Legislative privileges and fundamental rights do not operate in separate, watertight compartments, but must be read together, harmoniously, to give full effect to the constitutional scheme of democratic governance,” the application submitted

The court had suggested three months to be a reasonable time unless exceptional circumstances exist

The High Court has discharged a recently empanelled jury from the murder trial of slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung’s former relatives after one member asked to be excused for health reasons, leading to a delay in proceedings. Deputy Judge Brian Keith informed the seven men and two women on Monday that he had accepted the unidentified member’s request and decided that a new panel must be formed to ensure the jury selection complied with legal precedent. A new jury will be empanelled...

Augustine moved the application, anticipating an imminent move to arrest him after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case related to the Messi row carried out search operations at ocations linked to him and his brothers

What powers does the law give the armed forces? Which areas remain under the disturbed area notification? How has AFSPA’s footprint in the Northeast changed over the years?

Justice V. Lakshminarayanan directs all women SIT to issue weekly press releases for the people at large to know about the progress in investigation

The Monsoon Session of the Odisha Assembly has been facing disruptions for four days now, as the opposition BJD and Congress MLAs, sporting black scarves, raised slogans in the House on Friday, demanding repeal of the law. The proceedings had to be adjourned till 4 p.m.

The division bench, presided over by Chief Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge, held that there was no provision in criminal law for such interim protection to an accused

Foi sancionada nesta quarta-feira (23) lei que institui protocolo de atendimento a mulheres, crianças e pessoas vítimas de violência física e sexual. Entre outros pontos, o protocolo determina que o primeiro atendimento à vítima de violência seja realizado por um profissional de segurança pública e que este deve garantir o encaminhamento imediato da vítima à unidade pública de saúde, assim como realizar o registro da ocorrência. Notícias relacionadas:Casos de violência política de gênero crescem 11 vezes em 4 anos.Condenados por violência doméstica terão de passar por reabilitação.A iniciativa também determina o treinamento periódico para profissionais de saúde e de segurança pública envolvidos nos atendimentos. O chamado Protocolo Intersetorial de Atendimento e Resposta Integrada em Situações de Violência, destinado a orientar a atuação das autoridades em casos de violências física e sexual contra mulheres, crianças, adolescentes e pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade.  A lei também determina realização de perícia por perito não oficial nomeado pela autoridade competente nas localidades em que não houver órgão de perícia oficial de natureza criminal. Em relação aos profissionais de saúde e de segurança pública, o treinamento “específico e periódico” visa garantir atendimento baseado na não revitimização. A Lei n° 15.516, de 22 de setembro de 2026 altera outra normativa, a Lei nº 12.845 de 1º de agosto de 2013, chamada de Lei do Minuto Seguinte e que assegurava às vítimas de violência sexual o atendimento imediato pelo Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Entre as medidas já previstas estavam amparos médico, psicológico e social, exames preventivos e informações sobre direitos e a obrigatoriedade de notificação a autoridade competente, no prazo de 24 horas, dos casos em que houver indícios ou confirmação de violência sexual, para as providências cabíveis e para fins estatísticos.  Entre outros pontos, o protocolo estabelecido pela nova legislação determina: Atendimento médico imediato para avaliação do estado clínico e emocional; Informação à vítima sobre os seus direitos, incluindo o direito de acesso a atendimento médico e psicológico especializados, bem como a assistência social; Preservação, pelos profissionais de saúde, dos materiais e vestígios que possam ser coletados no exame médico-legal, e encaminhamento do material coletado ao órgão de perícia oficial de natureza criminal; Deslocamento do perito até a vítima, caso esta estiver impossibilitada de comparecer para a realização do exame de corpo de delito; As unidades policiais ou de saúde onde for realizado atendimento a vítimas de violência deverão contar com salas reservadas, destinadas ao acolhimento e atendimento multidisciplinar. Além disso, a lei determina que a a conclusão e encaminhamento do laudo pericial à autoridade policial devem ser feitos no prazo máximo de dez dias corridos. Outro ponto de destaque determina que as autoridades precisarão adotar todas as medidas necessárias para a preservação do local do crime e das provas materiais que possam contribuir para a investigação. O Conselho Tutelar deverá ser comunicado, no caso de a vítima ser criança ou adolescente, e poderá, autorizar e adotar os procedimentos necessários, com base no Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (ECA), a Lei nº 8.069, de 13 de julho de 1990. Nos casos de descumprimento do protocolo, que resultem em revitimização ou prejuízo à investigação ou à proteção da vítima, a autoridade poderá configurar o crime de violência institucional, nos termos da Lei de Abuso de Autoridade (Lei nº 13.869, de 5 de setembro de 2019), sem prejuízo das demais sanções. 

Bombay High Court said organisers and Mandals must deposit ₹1 lakh as a condition for permission under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000; while for a person, the deposit is ₹50,000

Thousands of people marched in Paris and other French cities on Sunday against a proposed law on the legitimate use of force that critics say would be a “licence to kill” for police and gendarmes. In July, deputies in the National Assembly approved the bill which says that any police official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally when using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Senate. Politicians, rights groups and other activists joined the Paris demonstration, among them Mathilde...

Court clarifies that the complaint under the domestic violence Act did not become retaliatory or malicious simply because it was registered after complainant initiated the Family Court proceedings

Hong Kong authorities have said they will legislate against persistent sexual abuse of children and the act of sending images of genitals to others online without consent after consulting the public. In a consultation report published on Thursday, the Security Bureau stated that with the city’s two professional legal associations expressing broad support for a dedicated law targeting persistent child sexual abuse, the government would include the crime in an amendment bill overhauling sex...

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has issued a withering rebuke to foreigners behaving badly in Thailand following a wave of scandals involving illegal businesses and landholdings including a cemetery, saying the cases have “gone too far” by breaching Thai law and hospitality. Facing mounting public backlash against illegal foreign ownership of swathes of the country enabled by endemic corruption, Anutin’s government has halved the visa-free entry period to 30 days for most countries and...

François Picard is pleased to welcome Andrew Weissmann, Author, Professor at NYU School of Law, and former General Counsel of the FBI. He argues that as political deception and deliberate falsehoods become normalized, and politically useful, it erodes any trust we have in our government and our institutions. Drawing on his book, "Liar’s Kingdom", Weissmann questions why political leaders are above the law in the United States, while ordinary citizens risk serious legal consequences for making intentionally false statements.

A new bill will remove references to banning the 'promotion' of homosexuality.

UK lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was opposed by 286 members of parliament, while 270 voted for it. The vote brings an end to a two-year debate in parliament about assisted dying. On two previous occasions in 2024 and 2025, the elected House of Commons had backed the bill, but it did not become law because it was effectively filibustered by unelected...

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate lost their bid for release from a Miami jail on Wednesday as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges. In denying bail for the Tate brothers, Miami-based US Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis said the brothers’ wealth and frequent international travel made them “quintessential flight risks”. “While [the brothers] may not ‌in fact possess what extravagant holdings they portray themselves as possessing online, the record...

The court said the slogan was not merely an expression of religious belief but “incites the people for an armed rebellion”, and it cannot be equated with religious slogans

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the country’s reparations initiative attempts to shift the debate over British slavery from the terrain of political discretion to that of legal accountability. Rather than beginning with the question of what Britain should pay, Grange insists on a logically prior question: was the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans in Jamaica ever lawful in the first place? Jamaica’s petition therefore asks King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Jamaica, to refer three questions to the Privy Council concerning English law, international law and Britain’s possible obligation to provide a reparatory remedy.

The US mother was on trial for strangling her three children. In other western countries, there’s a specific law for mums who kill their young children.

The court said the law empowers only the Police Commissioner in Bengaluru and other commissionerate cities, the District Magistrate in other areas, and a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, if specially empowered, to pass externment orders

Judge says ensuring every person’s right to live with dignity, guaranteed under the Constitution, should be a priority for the government

Every day, on an average, more than 3,000 litigants visit the court complex in Vellore