US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday stating that only the “President and the Attorney General shall provide authoritative interpretations of the law for the executive branch.” The order covers all federal employees and agencies, including independent agencies operating under the executive branch of the US government. Historically, independent agencies exist outside [...]

Sudan paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Tuesday ambushed and attacked White Nile state villages including Al-Kadaris and Al-Khalwat, leaving hundreds of civilian dead. The news was announced in a statement by Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese group of legal practitioners dedicated to providing urgent legal support and addressing human rights violations in Sudan. Emergency [...]

Cambodian lawmakers unanimously passed a revised law on Tuesday that toughens penalties for anyone who denies atrocities, including genocide, by the former Khmer Rouge regime. According to the government, the legislation aims to prevent history from repeating itself, to promote remembrance of Cambodia’s past, and to provide justice to victims. The draft legislation, first approved [...]

Brazilian Attorney General Paulo Gonet Branco formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday with attempting a coup following his loss in the country’s 2022 presidential elections. The Federal Public Ministry of Brazil forwarded complaints to the Federal Supreme Court (STF) against Bolsonaro and 33 others. Gonet Branco charged the accused with “acts against the [...]

Former prosecutor Nathaniel Akerman urged a federal judge overseeing the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to appoint a special counsel to review the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) abrupt request to drop charges on Monday. Akerman was a Watergate prosecutor, and his move comes amid growing criticism of the DOJ’s handling of [...]

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 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the world’s governments to lift sanctions against Syria. The group maintained that the sanctions, imposed by the US, the EU and the UK on the former Assad regime, hinder reconstruction efforts, the restoration of critical services, and protection of human rights. Hiba Zayadin, senior Syria researcher at HRW, [...]

Tarek Rabie Safi, a Palestinian medical and ambulance worker who had been detained in an Israeli jail, said in a video released by Reuters on Monday that he was abused and subjected to poor living conditions while in prison. In his statements, Saifi alleged that the prisoners were subject to physical torture and did not [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday criticized a proposed French bill that seeks to ban “ostensibly religious” clothing and symbols in all sports competitions, arguing it would violate human rights and disproportionately target Muslim women and girls. The French Senate is set to debate and vote on the bill, which would extend existing restrictions to all sports [...]

The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed serious concerns on Tuesday about the “sharply deteriorating” human rights situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the takeover of much of the region by M23 fighters. The spokesperson stressed that the capture of Bukavu, the second-largest city [...]