Amnesty International (AI) released a report Thursday detailing how people with disabilities have been overlooked in displacement camps throughout Turkey following devastating earthquakes which rocked the country in February. Following these earthquakes, over 100,000 people were injured, with many of them losing limbs or experiencing other life-changing injuries. An estimated 3.3 million people have been [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report Thursday claiming that Turkish border guards are shooting Syrian refugees while also using excessive force and torture against asylum seekers entering the country. The report cited hundreds of recent deaths along the Turkey/Syria border and condemned the actions of the Turkish government. The report began with a call [...]
The US Supreme Court Wednesday released an order temporarily extending access to the abortion pill mifepristone, giving the court more time to consider the suspension of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug over 20 years ago. The extension ensures that mifepristone will remain widely available while the court assesses the US [...]
Human rights groups Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) Thursday released a report showing a dramatic increase in the total number of executions in Iran for 2022. The report claims that 582 people were executed in Iran—the highest number of executions since 2015. The report highlights how the number of [...]
Nonprofit organization and LGBTQ+ advocacy group Equality Florida Wednesday issued a travel warning for LGBTQ+ people thinking of traveling or relocating to Florida. The warning was released following an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, such as HB 1557, which restricts the education and discussion of sexual and gender identity in public schools. The travel [...]
Police in the Russian city of Kazan Wednesday arrested a publicly out gay couple, Haoyang Xu and Gela Gogishvili, for their alleged breach of the country’s “gay propaganda” law. According to a statement from their lawyer, the two men are accused of violating the propaganda law because of videos uploaded to the couple’s YouTube and [...]
The Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) Thursday announced the detention of nine suspected Russian spies reportedly attempting to sabotage NATO operations. At a news conference Thursday morning, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński claimed the suspects were preparing “sabotage actions aimed at paralyzing the supply of equipment, weapons and aid to Ukraine.” Kamiński went on to say [...]
Large scale violent protests have erupted in Greece Thursday following a strike called by transportation workers unions. The strike was called in response to a rail disaster which occurred in February. According to Greek state news agency EPT, the previously peaceful protests descended into violence around 3 pm on Thursday afternoon when protesters allegedly began [...]
Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions. LSCA argued that fossil fuel lawyers often wreak havoc on the environment by lobbying against environmental regulations, drafting [...]
The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Monday that Starbucks violated federal labor laws by firing two workers who were planning to organize a union at a Philadelphia store in 2020. The NLRB upheld the ruling of an administrative law judge which found that, in 2019 and 2020, Starbucks took illegal actions when it [...]
