The Council of the EEU announced on Monday that it has adopted a new set of copyright laws that holds online platforms liable for user uploaded content. The law was adopted by the European Council on Monday after it was approved by the European Parliament last month. The directive introduces a new right for press publishers for the online [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha on Friday highlighted an extreme lack of adequate housing in France, as detailed in her preliminary findings. According to international human rights law, adequate housing is defined as sufficient affordable housing. Farha’s report breaks down France’s housing issues, detailing the government’s lack of response to housing needs, the poor conditions [...]

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday rejected a request to open an investigation into allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan. The prosecutor had requested authorization to investigate war crimes that may have been occurring in the country since 2003. The court noted that the political situation since 2006, [...]

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law Thursday a bill that bans abortions performed after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.  Named the “Human Rights Protection Act,” the law bans abortions as early as five weeks, and is one of the most restrictive bills in the country. The law includes a provision allowing abortions to save the [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday morning to allow Alabama to continue with its planned execution of Christopher Lee Price. Price is a death row inmate convicted of murdering a pastor in 1991. The 5-4 ruling occurred two hours after Price’s death warrant expiration at 12 AM EST Friday, so Alabama must now reapply to [...]

Switzerland’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the outcome of a nationwide referendum on the grounds that voters were given insufficient information. The 2016 referendum concerned married couples being unfairly taxed for their joint incomes compared to cohabiting partners who are taxed separately. Through a narrow margin, the referendum to equally tax cohabiting partners was rejected [...]

Twenty-six progressive groups on Thursday sent a letter to Congress urging an investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s “sham confirmation process” last year. The groups claim that “many issues went unresolved during last year’s confirmation process, when Senate Republicans jettisoned all procedural norms and abandoned any sense of fairness, and they must be investigated.” [...]

US Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) introduced a Senate bill and a House bill to repeal President Trump’s travel ban on Wednesday. The bicameral legislation, known as the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act (NO BAN Act), imposes limits on executive power to curtail immigration and repeals Trump’s three executive orders limiting immigration based [...]

US President Donald Trump delivered a speech in front of an audience of operating engineers in Crosby, Texas, on Wednesday and promised to make it easier for them to construct oil and gas pipelines before signing two executive orders. Trump said that the US has “made a lot of progress in the last two and [...]

Counsel for the Obama administration Gregory Craig was indicted on Thursday for making false statements to and concealing work-related information he performed for the Ukraine government in 2012 from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ alleges that Craig lied and withheld information in order to avoid registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act [...]