UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday urged Guinean authorities to ensure that all parties can effectively participate in the upcoming December elections. Türk urged Guinean authorities to comply with their obligations under international law: Going forward, it is critical for the transitional authorities to ensure that processes towards restoring constitutional rule [...]

The Slovak Parliament must reject constitutional amendments that would limit individuals’ ability to legally change their gender identity, resulting in substantial harm to the LGBTQ+ community, Amnesty International urged on Wednesday. Rado Sloboda, director of Amnesty International Slovakia, condemned the proposed amendments as “draconian,” stating: While the proposed changes specifically target the rights of LGBTI persons [...]

A Myanmar man was sentenced to seven years of hard labor for criticizing the military government’s parliamentary election plans, state-run media said on Wednesday. Ko Nay Thway had shared footage on his online account “Lashio Baegyi” of a car robbery that involved an assault on a female driver. In a post that has since been [...]

Three high-ranking FBI officials filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging their recent terminations were politically motivated retaliation for their past work on cases involving President Donald Trump. The complaint stems from the August firing of the officials, who had accrued six decades of experience between them—Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen and Spencer Evans. They claim to [...]

The Trump administration filed suit on Thursday against the city of Boston, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and the Boston Police Department, challenging an ordinance that restricts cooperation by the local police force with federal immigration officials. The Trump administration’s complaint centers around the doctrine of preemption, which holds that federal law may displace state law if [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Illinois law that bans the carrying of firearms on public transit, effectively overturning a lower court decision that found the ban unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. The Illinois law prohibits the carrying of firearms in a variety of [...]

Amnesty International on Friday lauded the Central African Republic’s ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol. Amnesty International Senior Researcher Abdoulaye Diarra praised the move as a “welcome and long-awaited step in promoting and protecting women [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration announced Wednesday it had seized control of Washington’s Union Station from Amtrak, escalating federal intervention in the nation’s capital as National Guard troops patrol city streets. The takeover was announced by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who claimed the goal was to ensure sanitary conditions and the absence of unhoused individuals [...]

The California legislature on Thursday approved a redrawn congressional redistricting map that could cut five Republican-held US House seats. The move comes after Texas approved its own new redistricting efforts that would give Republicans an upper hand in the 2026 midterm elections. President Donald Trump urged Texas to redraw its state congressional maps in the [...]

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen on Tuesday announced the opening of a new immigration detention center in the southwest corner of the state. National Guard Major General Craig Strong called the move a step in supporting “the president’s initiatives for homeland security.” The present McCook Work Camp will be transformed from a minimum-security facility, and its [...]