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Amnesty International released a report on Friday shedding light on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education of Indigenous youth across multiple continents. Drawing on more than 80 interviews and surveys conducted between 2021 and 2023, the organization’s findings highlighted systemic inequities, a glaring lack of consultation with Indigenous communities, and a need [...]

US District Judge Trever McFadden on Monday denied a motion by the Associated Press (AP) for a temporary restraining order, finding that AP has not demonstrated irreparable harm that warrants the order. In an emergency hearing, AP requested that the government immediately cease its retaliatory actions against the outlet. AP is still permitted on White [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed serious worries about Mexico’s handling of homicide investigations in a new report released Wednesday. HRW’s findings indicate that Mexican officials consistently overlook crucial investigative procedures, leading to an overwhelming number of homicide cases that remain unsolved. The HRW report shows that procedural mistakes are widespread, crime scenes are frequently unpreserved, forensic [...]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles said Wednesday that migrants deported from the US could be held in Costa Rica for four to six weeks before being sent to their home countries. This comes after the Costa Rican government announced its intent to collaborate with the US in the repatriation of undocumented immigrants originally from [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the US government for systematically violating the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border, asserting that current policies violate both domestic and international human rights obligations. In its briefing titled “Lives in Limbo: Devastating Impacts of Trump’s Migration and Asylum Policies,” Amnesty International detailed how executive actions and increased [...]

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened Monday to take Google to court if its map feature continues to show US-based users the label “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico.” President Donald Trump’s first day in office concluded with an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Trump decreed on [...]

President Trump said in a news conference Tuesday that he plans to continue restricting the Associated Press’s (AP) access to presidential events until the news outlet updates its style guide to reflect recent changes by the Trump administration. Trump called phrases the outlet continues to use “obsolete”. Specifically, the president criticized AP’s continued use of [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

Dear President Trump, As an ordinary citizen, I write to protest and dissent from your effort in plain sight to dismantle the United States Constitution and the Federal Government. You took the oath to take care and faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Instead, you try to dismantle sections of the government established [...]

Canada’s ambassador to France, Stéphane Dion, said Monday that he disapproved of US President Donald Trump’s interest in annexing Greenland, citing international law. Dion stated in a press conference in Paris that international law prohibits threats of invasion. He argued that such action contravenes the charter of the UN. Dion declined to answer whether the [...]