Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged Thursday that the US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights by failing to obtain free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in accordance with international law. The 133-page report determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitted the lithium [...]

Italy’s justice minister on Wednesday defended the decision to repatriate accused Libyan war criminal Osama Njeem, blaming an allegedly “flawed” arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Njeem on January 18 for suspected crimes against humanity and war crimes against detainees in Libya from 2015 onwards. [...]

Former chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit Wednesday, accusing President Donald Trump of breaking the law when he fired her last week. Wilcox claims the firing violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which only permits the removal of board members for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in [...]

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar formally announced on Thursday that Israel will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). According to Saar’s letter, addressed to the UNHRC president, the decision was reached “in light of the ongoing and unrelenting institutional bias against Israel in the Human Rights Council.” Saar further wrote: The UNHRC has [...]

The House of Representatives of the Philippines voted on Wednesday to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte following allegations of corruption and serious breaches of the Constitution. This impeachment marks the first time a vice president of the Philippines has faced such proceedings. Accusations against Vice President Duterte include culpable violation of the constitution, bribery, graft [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction at a hearing on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end all birthright citizenship. The plaintiffs, CASA, Inc., Asylum Advocacy Project, and five pregnant mothers under pseudonyms, filed the lawsuit against Trump, among other government officials, [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at keeping transgender women out of women’s sports by rescinding all funds from educational programs that allow transgender women to compete in women’s categories or to use women’s changing rooms. Trump stated that the goal of this executive order is to “protect opportunities for women and [...]

DunixeBerlanas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The EU General Court on Wednesday upheld a significant financial penalty against Poland, amounting to approximately €320 million, over its non-compliance with EU laws through its judicial reforms enacted in 2019. The European Commission argued that legislative changes to Poland’s judicial system, specifically those adopted in December 2019, [...]

Minh Quang Pham, an accused member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2011. The sentence was handed down by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to [...]

Human rights organizations called on the EU Tuesday to enact a complete ban on all trade and business with Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories. In a joint letter to the EU president more than 160 human rights groups, trade unions, and civil society groups urged the European Commission to adhere to obligations set out [...]