The UN human rights office issued an update Wednesday of its report on the human rights situation in Palestine. The report implements the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It was mandated by a 2016 resolution [text,...
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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Wednesday that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPD) is constitutional. At issue was whether 12 USC § 5491(c)(3) ,...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to continue operations at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The order states that the facility is "legal, safe, humane, and conducted consistent with United States and international law."...
A US presidential order decreasing the area of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah is "outrageous" and should be reversed according to a UN rights expert. The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples said [press...
Environmental activists WildEarth Guardians and Defenders of Wildlife filed lawsuits on Tuesday against the Trump administration alleging the recovery plan for the endangered Mexican wolf is so flawed it would lead to the wolf's extinction. The Mexican wolf...
An unnamed woman in her 60s filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government Tuesday seeking 11 million yen (approximately USD $101,000) in damages for her forced sterilization at the age of 150because of her intellectual disability under...
The Secretaries of State from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and South Carolina filed a motion on Monday urging the US Supreme Court to block the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's recent order striking down the...
France's highest administrative court on Monday reversed the ban on breeding killer whales and dolphins in captivity. The Council of State's decision to annul the ministerial decree comes less than a year after it was signed. They...
Twenty-five children and young citizens of Colombia between the ages of seven and 26 on Monday filed the first ever climate change litigation in Latin America. The plaintiffs, represented by Dejusticia, come from 17 regions classified...
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday invalidated mass surveillance as part of legislation that was passed in 2016. The legislation, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA), was passed initially as an emergency provision in 2014....
