The Trump administration on Sunday appealed for the third time to the US Supreme Court, asking the justices to approve the president’s plan for mail-in ballots under the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) “Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” rule. In the emergency application, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to allow USPS to [...]
Germany on Monday challenged Nicaragua’s claims that it has breached international obligations by supplying weapons to Israel, asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to dismiss the case brought against it. Germany responded to proceedings instituted by Nicaragua in 2024 alleging that Germany breached the Genocide Convention, multiple Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols, and other [...]
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released a report Friday finding that Israeli security forces forcibly displaced more than 33,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm refugee camps in the occupied West Bank in January and February 2025. The OHCHR stated that the forces widely destroyed homes and infrastructure during Operation Iron Wall [...]
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 during a police operation to clear an anti-mining barricade in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya province. At the center of the dispute is an exploration permit by the North Luzon Mineral Resources Corp (NLMRC) and competing claims concerning land rights and [...]
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 [...]
