Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Wednesday in support of a group in Zambia that has called for the African Union to take steps to clean up a mine site that has caused child led-poisoning. Complainants included the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, Zambian nongovernmental organizations, and affected families. The [...]

Several protesters were detained in New York City on Monday in a demonstration protesting US military support of Israel during the ongoing conflict with Iran. Anti-war group Jewish Voice for Peace said police detained over 90 demonstrators. New York City police released a statement saying there were “multiple” arrests but did not provide an exact [...]

Several environmental groups and Alaskan tribes sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging the administration’s recent repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment findings. Environmental groups, including several Alaskan tribes and Food & Water Watch, brought suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs challenged a final [...]

The US Department of Education (DOE) announced on Monday that it will rescind agreements previous presidential administrations had with certain schools to interpret Title IX to include protections for transgender and gay students. The DOE Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release that said it has terminated agreements with Cape Henlopen School District, [...]

A US appeals court on Wednesday rejected an initiative proposed by the Trump administration that would have cut millions of dollars from permanent housing funds for the homeless and shifted them to transitional programs requiring sobriety checks and mental health treatment. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has not announced whether it will [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Tuesday condemning the “unlawful use of lethal force outside any context of armed conflict” by the US military over the past months. The statement said that the deadly US strikes on vessels thought to be carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific amount to “extrajudicial [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a major case on appeal, finding Cox Communications not liable for refusing to terminate contracts with 57,000 customers after the customers were found to have infringed roughly 10,000 copyrighted works. Sony Music Entertainment, along with other music labels, brought the lawsuit against Cox after discovering Cox customers were [...]

A group of cultural and historical preservation groups filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Monday to block the further closure of the John F. Kennedy Center, which the president insists is necessary for revenue renovations. Plaintiffs include the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Society of Architectural Historians, and [...]

UN officials spoke at a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, calling for the international community to increase support for Syrian social and political progress amid war in the Middle East. Deputy special envoy for Syria, Claudio Cordone; UN humanitarian affairs official, Joyce Msuya; and good-will ambassador and Syrian Olympic athlete, Yusra Mardini, warned how current violence [...]

A US federal appellate court upheld a lower court decision on Monday, finding that the Trump administration’s “sweeping” suspension of funding for administrative agencies in 2025 was likely unlawful. In the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit opinion, authored by Chief Judge David J. Barron, the court blocked the vast suspension of funding [...]