A federal judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from implementing changes to mail-in voting that would create new design requirements and mandate only sending ballots to voters on a national list. With less than two months until the midterms, mail-in voting has become a major issue of contention. This decision comes amid a series [...]

Human Rights Watch and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran issued a joint report Thursday charging that Iranian authorities are unlawfully executing protesters and political dissidents on a weekly basis. In what is characterized as a “relentless attack on the right to life,” Iranian authorities have arbitrarily executed at least 59 men [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned Russia’s recruitment of foreign nationals from socio-economically disadvantaged countries to fight in Ukraine as human trafficking, stating that they were primarily recruited via deceptive job offers, had their immigration status exploited, and were handed over to Russian military forces by third-party actors.  Commenting on the issue, Agnès Callamard, secretary general [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on authorities in Lesotho to investigate the reported abduction and assault of journalist Kananelo Boloetse. Boloetse, who has widely covered human rights issues, was abducted from his home in Maseru on September 5, and apparently tortured and severely beaten as a result of his investigative journalism. Lerato Peggy Matheka, Boloetse‘s [...]

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on Tuesday has alerted the public that the use of data-intensive technologies, specifically artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, is growing faster than the current electricity infrastructure can handle. While a data center facility can be built and connected to the grid within two to five years, expanding [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday his government’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs on an annual $20 billion in US goods, beginning on September 8. This move comes after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs over the weekend on Canadian goods, following the collapse of trade negotiations. The failure of last-ditch trade negotiations [...]

Apple filed a motion on Monday asking a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees, both now working for OpenAI, and OpenAI,  the company that created and maintains ChatGPT, from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as ‌it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. Last month Apple sued OpenAI [...]

The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, along with the Native American Land Conservancy and National Parks Conservation Association, on Tuesday filed two separate lawsuits against the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Lisa Belenky, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, spoke out against the Trump administration and this recent [...]

Amnesty International Malaysia on Tuesday has condemned Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s direction for authorities to take stringent measures against more than 100 Rohingya asylum seekers, who said they were forced from their homes by local residents and subsequently detained after assembling outside of the UN Refugee Agency office in the nation’s capital.  In commenting on [...]

A US federal appeals court on Monday reversed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss lawsuits against Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol. This judgment effectively revived hundreds of cases that were filed by families who claim that their children developed autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after the women took Tylenol during pregnancy.  The 64-page [...]