The United States Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Anne Arundel County Board of Education alleging that the Maryland county’s school district’s policy on gender identity and expression violates federal law. Specifically, the department claims that the school district’s policy perpetuates “secretly gender transitioning” students without parental consent [...]

Australian Supreme Court Judge Claire Harris on Monday rejected prisoner Andre McKechnie’s human rights challenge to the ban on the spread Vegemite in Australian prisons on the grounds that its ban is “demonstrably justified” by the management, security, and good order of the prison and welfare of the prisoners. McKechnie filed a “frivolous” suit last [...]

In a succinct unsigned opinion, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to stay an injunction that would bar implementation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy denying gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons. Justices Thomas and Alito would have granted the administration’s call for a stay. This [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]

Several state attorneys general on Wednesday filed individual lawsuits in their state courts against the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the policies of its generative chatbot ChatGPT are harmful to children and deceitful to parents. The states that have filed suits include Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, West Virginia and Nebraska. The suits [...]

A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an independent review into the adequacy of the school’s response to sexual assault allegations by a former student, identified only as Jane Doe. Yates, formerly the US deputy attorney general under Barack Obama and now a [...]

US District Judge George O’Toole in Boston on Monday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from assessing and collecting fines of up to $1.8 million on migrants who fail to willingly leave the US after receiving final deportation orders. O’Toole resolved the class action suit against the administration by granting a motion to stay [...]

The United Nations reported Wednesday that, nearly one year after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Palestinians still face significant deprivation of basic human rights, including access to clean water, adequate shelter, healthcare, and education. While UN agencies continue to provide assistance, Palestinians’ access to essential humanitarian aid remains restricted, creating substantial obstacles to returning to [...]

US District Judge Timothy Kelly in the early hours of Thursday morning granted a request by CNN, MS NOW and Politico for temporarily relief following the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke their access to the White House. Kelly’s issuance of relief takes the form of a 14-day temporary restraining order (TRO) that mandates the news [...]

A jury in Burlington, Vermont, on Monday found Jason Eaton guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder stemming from the 2023 shooting of three Palestinian students attending college in the Northeast. The jury deliberated for only a few hours before rendering the guilty verdict, rejecting Eaton’s insanity defense. Eaton was convicted of attempted second-degree [...]