Finance Minister Rachel Reeves on Tuesday announced the UK’s plans to pass legislation to properly regulate crypto-assets. As of August 2024, research released by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) estimated that 12 percent of the UK population, which comes up to approximately 7 million adults, own crypto-assets, signifying growing interest in the field. In place [...]

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) on Wednesday published a list of attacks on reproductive rights and healthcare during Trump’s first 100 days in office. First, the Trump administration is refusing to defend the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law that requires hospitals to provide treatment to those in emergency medical [...]

Several UN aid agencies warned that Afghanistan’s escalating humanitarian crisis is being compounded by the mass return of its nationals from neighbouring countries, including Pakistan and Iran. The agencies also warned that the situation is further complicated by the struggling economy as well as restrictions on women’s rights. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [...]

Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that military authorities in West Africa have been increasingly using enforced disappearances as a means of repression against civil and political activists who criticize the government. The organization noted that the military and security forces in Mali, Niger, Guinea and Burkina Faso resorted to unlawful detentions and enforced disappearances to [...]

The National Assembly of France voted 369-68 Tuesday in favor of a sweeping new law aimed to address an uptick in drug-related crime. The new law will create a specialized public prosecutor’s office designed to investigate and combat organized crime. The law overhauls a broad set of reforms intended to address organized drug trafficking. Its [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Wednesday a report documenting serious human rights violations committed by Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups during the aftermath of the 2024 presidential elections. HRW presents evidence on the killings, cases of torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions perpetrated by armed groups supporting the government called colectivos, and security [...]

Cuba revoked parole and arrested prominent dissidents Jose Daniel Ferrer and Felix Navarro on Tuesday. The Supreme Popular Tribunal, Cuba’s highest court, announced in a statement that Ferrer and Navarro had violated parole conditions and therefore must return to prison. Maricela Sosa, vice president of the Supreme Popular Council, cited Article 149 of Law No. [...]

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to target sanctuary jurisdictions for violating, obstructing, and defying federal immigration laws, and to bolster immigration enforcement by “empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens.” The first order, titled “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens,” begins by [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out Myanmar’s military junta on Monday for years of unlawful attacks on the healthcare system that have left 2 million people in need of assistance following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month. According to HRW, the junta has arrested over 872 health workers, attacked 263 medical facilities, and killed 74 [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a disability-rights appeal brought on behalf of a student and her parents against their school district, alleging their child did not receive fair accommodations for her disability. The case, AJT v. Osseo Area Schools, No. 24-249, weighs whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and [...]