Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Mayotte, a French island territory in the Indian Ocean and former French colony, is failing to provide education to all children. The 73-page report, titled “Exceptional Failure: France’s Persistent Education Shortcomings in Mayotte,” found that Mayotte’s municipalities not only impose significant barriers to school enrollment, but those who [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Noem v. Al Otro Lado, a case reviewing a policy used by past administrations to deny immigrants a chance to apply for asylum on the Mexican border until space opened to process claims. US President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing a decision made by the US Court [...]

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency on Thursday to death row inmate Tremane Wood, reducing his sentence to life in prison without parole just hours before his scheduled execution. Tremane Wood was convicted in 2004 of the first-degree murder of Ronnie Wipf and was ultimately sentenced to death. Wood’s co-defendant and brother, Zjaiton Jake Wood, [...]

A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to release hundreds of people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, claiming they were arrested in likely violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree. The order, penned by Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, [...]

Venezuelan nationals deported to El Salvador in the spring by the US government were tortured and ill-treated, advocacy groups reported Wednesday. According to an 81-page report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal, a Salvadoran advocacy group, members of a group of 252 Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador’s notorious Center for Terrorism Confinement [...]

Following reports that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) may announce a ban on transgender women in female competition for the upcoming winter Olympics, the IOC stated Monday that it has not yet made a decision on the matter. A report in The Times on Monday stated that the committee will likely ban transgender athletes from [...]

UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk praised Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous peoples on Monday, calling it a “historic step toward self-determination for the country’s First Peoples.” While still pending assent, the Victoria Statewide Treaty instates constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, a goal called for by Indigenous leaders in the [...]

A US federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Sunday that blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Oregon, Texas and California until 5 p.m. Friday. District Court Judge Karin Immergut in Portland, a first-term Trump appointee, found that the administration’s federalization and proposed deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon in [...]

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the “ACCC’) filed a lawsuit against Microsoft on Monday, claiming the company misled nearly 2.7 million Australian users into paying higher prices for Microsoft 365 software subscriptions following the integration of its AI assistant, Copilot, causing consumers economic harm. Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft US”) is named as the first respondent [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday urged Madagascar authorities to investigate two shootings and two assaults of journalists covering current the political upheaval and protests. CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative, Moussa Ngom, expressed deep concern over the matter: It is unacceptable that journalists who were simply reporting on a major news event were targeted [...]