The state of California filed a suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday over the federal government’s continued efforts to interfere with the state’s ability to enforce its own emission standards and anti-pollution regulations. Last week, the EPA submitted four preemption waivers, granted to California under the Clean Air Act, to Congress for [...]

UN Secretary General António Guterres raised the alarm on Wednesday over the abuse of free speech and expression rights for promoting hatred online, that he said is leading to a “surge in real-world violence” against vulnerable groups. Speaking on the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, Guterres warned that such speech is a “tool for [...]

Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand announced the introduction of a new legislation in the federal parliament that would further strengthen the existing legal framework to prevent goods made with forced labor from entering the Canadian market. Bill C-35, titled “An Act respecting the prohibition of the importation of goods produced by forced labour” [...]

The ruling Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) abandoned a bill on Friday that would have created a constitution for the Canadian province, after failing to gather the consent of opposing parties for its adoption before the National Assembly broke for summer. Québec Minister of Justice Simon Jolin-Barrette stated that he asked for the consent of the [...]

The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively blocking Paxton from pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform, ActBlue. Federal Judge Richard Stearns chided Paxton for suing ActBlue in an effort to retaliate against the company for promoting and enabling contributions [...]

UN rights experts on Thursday condemned the de facto Taliban government in Afghanistan for detaining 30 women for alleged dress code violations and using excessive force against protestors demonstrating against the restrictive dress codes in the city of Herat. The protests concerned “increasingly repressive restrictions” and the detention of multiple women for violating orders restricting [...]

The Katiba Institute (KI), together with the Law Society of Kenya (the Law Society), filed a contempt of court application in the High Court of Kenya in Nairobi on Wednesday against the Kenyan government for “openly, wilfully, deliberately, and contumaciously disobeying and violating” court orders demanding full disclosure of “documents, agreements, and safety protocols” in [...]

Riigikohus, the Estonian Supreme Court, in an 11-6 decision on Monday refused to declare as unconstitutional a set of amendments to the Churches and Congregations Act (the Act) that would have restricted domestic religious organizations from associating with a foreign religious organization or spiritual leader. The Court rejected Estonia President Alar Karis’s assertions that the [...]

The Hong Kong Legislative Council’s panels on Security, and Administration of Justice and Legal Services (the Panels) on Monday proposed a new “subsidiary legislation” under Article 23 of Hong Kong Basic Law, empowering the chief executive to certify “other offences endangering national security under the law of  the HKSAR .” Specifically, the proposal paper states: [...]

South Korea President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday called on the National Assembly (the Assembly) to open a parliamentary investigation into a ballot shortage that disrupted the local elections in the country last week, stating that the response and explanation thus far to the public has been insufficient. Stating that the right of citizens to [...]