Oklahoma District Court Judge Bernard Jones granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, blocking HB 4156 from allowing the criminalization of noncitizens’ irregular entry and unauthorized stay in the state of Oklahoma. This decision is part of a lawsuit that is an amended complaint, with the plaintiffs having filed a motion for a temporary restraining [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called for Libyan judicial authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into claims of human rights abuses after a deadly conflict between Libyan rival armed groups and quasi-state forces. Tensions between rival groups intensified after the May 12 murder of Abdelghani “Ghneiwa” al-Kikli, the commander of Tripoli armed group Stability [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump had “no constitutional authority” to fire staff and terminate programmatic activities at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) (United States Inst. of Peace v. Jackson). In her opinion, Judge Howell stated that the Administration violated §4605(f) of the USIP Act—the “for-cause removal” provision—when it [...]

UN human rights experts strongly condemned the repeated attacks on UNRWA schools by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem on Tuesday, calling attacks on schools an “assault on children.” In a statement, they warned that the targeting of such educational facilities may amount to a war crime under international law. [...]

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Apple 10.5 million rubles (approximately $130,000) on Monday in three administrative charges of LGBTQA+ “propaganda,” and one charge of refusing to remove prohibited material. Under Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation, LGBTQA+ “propaganda” is defined as a promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations [...]

On Monday, the US Supreme Court granted a stay to a US district court order in NTPSA v. Noem, allowing the vacatur of the temporary protection status (TPS) for 350,000 Venezuelans to proceed. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a vacatur notice on February 3, thereby vacating the temporary protection status issued by [...]

Human Rights Watch called on the government of Mali on Tuesday to “credibly and independently” investigate the apparent extrajudicial executions of 22 men who were detained by the army in the town of Diafarabé. Senior Sahel researcher at Human Rights Watch Ilaria Allegrozzi said: “The killing of at least 22 men in military custody puts [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called for an investigation into the US air-strike on a migrant detention center in Sa’ada, Yemen, on April 28, that killed and injured dozens of migrants. This follows months of US air-strikes in Yemen that have resulted in a high number of civilian casualties. Amnesty International’s secretary general Agnès Callamard stated: [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) sided with Equatorial Guinea on Monday in a decades-long maritime boundary dispute with Gabon concerning three islands and their potentially oil-rich waters. The ICJ ruled that Equatorial Guinea has sovereignty over the islands and the surrounding waters pursuant to the 1900 Treaty of Paris between France and Spain, and [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Astrid Puentes Riaño, urged world leaders on Tuesday to incorporate human rights into ocean governance ahead of the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3). In her statement, Riaño emphasized that human rights and ocean governance are interconnected issues that cannot be [...]