The Trump administration argued to both the First Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court in recent days that its new postal restrictions on election ballots are not electoral regulations at all. They are packaging regulations akin to those placed on “cremated remains and replica explosives.” The authority of the US Postal Service, President Donald [...]
Human Rights Watch urged Philippine authorities on Thursday to drop charges against 11 Indigenous rights protesters arrested August 28 during a police operation to clear an anti-mining barricade in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. At the center of the dispute is an exploration permit by the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corp (NLMRC) and competing claims concerning land [...]
In a letter to Postmaster General David Steiner, the seven Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) demanded Friday that the US Postal Service (USPS) halt implementation of new mail-ballot procedures required by President Donald Trump’s executive order. The senators also want answers about the legal authority for those new procedures [...]
A group of UN experts called on Honduras Friday to immediately halt evictions of peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities taking place under Decree No. 107-2026, also known as the Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-Industrial Sector, Energy Projects, Tourism, Livestock, and Small Agricultural Producers. The experts wrote: “We cannot stand by and [...]
UN experts on Friday raised alarm over the alleged enforced disappearance, torture and extrajudicial killing of Imran Ali, a student from Balochistan province, calling it part of a state-sponsored pattern of targeting ethnic Baloch people and urging Pakistan to conduct an urgent investigation. In commenting on the importance of transparency and accountability in shedding light [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has delayed the prosecution for past grave abuses, despite sharp criticism from victims’ families, many of whom have yet to receive proper closure for their losses. Sri Lanka finds itself at a point of conversation within human rights circles as excavations take [...]
By the seventh day of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the courtroom dispute had shifted away from her mental state and toward the conduct of a single juror. The jury foreperson had sent Judge William Sullivan notes indicating that one juror had acknowledged doubt but, in the foreperson’s account, was refusing to apply the [...]
The UN urged Iranian officials Thursday to withdraw draft legislation that would impose up to 30 years imprisonment for communicating with “foreign entities,” warning that the broadly worded measure could have long-term implications on fundamental civil liberties in the country. Commenting on the potential human rights violations that may arise if the bill is passed, [...]
Kenya marked the 16th anniversary of its 2010 Constitution on August 27 with a familiar ritual, now laced with unease. Sixteen years after Kenyans voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new constitutional order, the country split, once again, into two symbolic rooms. At the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, President William Ruto led the [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan on Thursday released a new report detailing how external support networks fuel the conflict and escalate civilian harm in the country. The Mission concluded that foreign-sourced weapons, drone systems, components and personnel have significantly expanded the military capabilities of both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the [...]
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