The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus on Tuesday presented a report detailing the weaponization of the nation’s criminal justice system against government dissenters. The experts found violations of several international human rights treaties, including the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [...]

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called for the Chilean National Congress to reject a proposed package of constitutional amendments addressing “national security” questions being pushed by President José Antonio Kast. HRW charged that the amendments, supposedly aimed at fighting organized crime, would undermine due process and human rights protections. Multiple committees in both houses of [...]

Judge Myong J. Joun of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Wednesday granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The order blocks HUD’s plan to halt Private Enforcement Initiatives (PEI) under the Fair Housing Act, removing the department’s access to funding. In [...]

Officials from 24 states and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the DC Superior Court concerning the use of data about people receiving anti-poverty aid from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, arguing that this constitutes an illegal use of data intended [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday gave its final approval to a $1.5 billion settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which it was alleged that Anthropic had used pirated books as material to train its Claude AI platform. The settlement came after a year in the courts, [...]

Egypt has been arbitrarily arresting and deporting refugees with expired permits, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The majority of these refugees and asylum seekers are from Sudan and South Sudan. Sudan is in year four of a deadly civil war, while renewed violence plagues South Sudan. The situation in Egypt is due in part [...]

The impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte began Monday on charges of bribery, graft and other corruption. Duterte is currently facing four articles of impeachment. The Philippine House of Representatives voted to impeach her in May with 257 votes in favor, with only 106 needed to impeach. Under the Philippines Constitution, the Senate [...]

Plaintiffs in Japan are seeking a clear ruling on whether the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Delivering signatures to the Supreme Court on Monday, plaintiffs called for an unambiguous decision in favor of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Japan is currently the only G7 country where same-sex marriage is illegal. The case before [...]

US President Donald Trump nominated Todd Blanche on Monday to the position of the country’s 83rd attorney general. Blanche has served as acting attorney general since the resignation of Pam Bondi. He is now in line for the full-time position pending Senate confirmation. Blanche began his legal career as a paralegal in the criminal division [...]

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to establish government oversight of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Section 3 of the order calls for developing and maintaining a “classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models.” Specifically, the administration wants to determine which models constitute a “covered frontier model,” a [...]