A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media companies to block children 14 years or younger from using their platforms. Chief US District Judge Mark Walker for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, granted a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the law passed by the [...]

A group of 33 civil society groups, trade unions, and human rights organizations called on Tuesday for the creation of a new treaty that would enshrine labor protections and legal standards for “gig” workers in international law. The joint statement, which was signed by organizations including Human Rights Watch and Privacy International, called for member [...]

The Italian Senate voted to pass a controversial security bill into law on Wednesday, expanding powers for police and introducing stricter laws around protest-related offenses. The Security Decree was passed by a vote of 109 to 69. It was introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government, and approved in the lower house of Parliament [...]

In a press briefing Tuesday, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General forewarned that Syria’s health system “remains under severe strain,” leaving almost 16 million people in urgent need of humanitarian support amid continued threats posed by explosive remnants of war (ERWs). Stéphane Dujarric and the UN reported that ERWs have caused over 1,000 casualties since [...]

During a press conference Tuesday, the UN World Food Program (WFP) raised concerns about the humanitarian situation worsening in Haiti with the coming hurricane season. The WFP said that political instability, violence and food shortages in the country may be escalated by a single storm. Following a visit to Haiti, WFP regional director in Latin America [...]

A United Nations human rights expert on Wednesday called on the Kenyan government to immediately stop ongoing land demarcation activities in the Eastern Mau Complex, warning that the process threatens the ancestral lands of the Ogiek people and breaches binding judgments of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR). According to a statement [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged China on Tuesday to address the Tiananmen Massacre, including by halting censorship, allowing commemorations, compensating the victims’ families, and holding the perpetrators accountable. This statement comes ahead of the 36th anniversary of the killing of hundreds of peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on June 4, 1989. China researcher [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a 98-page report on Tuesday said that laws banning gender-affirming care in the US are inflicting severe harm on young people, their families, and on healthcare systems. Many families reported traveling long distances to seek treatment, with many insurance companies routinely denying coverage for out-of-state treatment. Six states—Idaho, North Dakota, [...]

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday authorized the tribunal’s landmark in absentia hearing, paving the way for trial proceedings against the fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to move forward despite his continued evasion of arrest. Judicial proceedings at the ICC are comprised of two phases at the first instance trial [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed on Tuesday that both Israeli and Houthi attacks against airports must be investigated as war crimes. The rights organization alleged that the continued attacks between Israel and Yemen against their respective airports can amount to “unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilian objects.” The report referred to three incidents. Israeli [...]