The United States Monday released its first-ever strategy to anticipate, prevent and respond to atrocities at home and abroad. The Biden administration released the strategy due in part to ongoing human rights offenses in Ukraine. President Biden has committed his administration to promoting democratic values through the defense of human rights around the world. In [...]
Amnesty International Monday launched a global campaign in response to the rising threat against protest rights around the world. In a press release, Amnesty International singled out countries such as Russia, France and Sri Lanka as areas where the right to protest has been seriously curbed. Recently, Russians gathered across Russian cities to protest the [...]
US President Joe Biden Tuesday signed an executive order to deter and punish wrongful detention of US citizens abroad. The order allows US government agencies to impose sanctions and other measures to try to ensure US citizens will not be wrongfully detained. Biden highlighted particular organizations against which the order is intended to protect US [...]
The Vatican Tuesday announced a new investment policy, and the entity will close all of its foreign investment accounts. The new policy governs the ethical standard for investments, restricting investments that don’t “contribut to a more just and sustainable world.” The guidelines require that all foreign investment accounts be consolidated into one account in APSA, [...]
A Florida jury Monday found Tesla one percent negligent in a 2018 high speed crash that killed 18-year-old Barrett Riley after Tesla disabled Riley’s speed limiter without permission from his parents. James and Jenny Riley requested that a device that limits the car’s top speed to 85 miles per hour be installed after their son [...]
Payton Gendron Monday pled not guilty to 27 federal charges he faces for carrying out a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, Tops supermarket. Gendron was indicted last Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of New York. Gendron faces ten counts of a “hate crime act resulting in death,” ten counts of [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced that rideshare app Uber will pay more than $2 million and waive wait time fees for disabled passengers to settle allegations that the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). DOJ initiated a lawsuit in November 2021 over allegations that Uber charged disabled passengers wait time [...]
The Texas Department of Public Safety Monday announced that an internal review was underway into the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting “to determine if any violations of policy, law, or doctrine occurred.” This follows the release of a report into the response by the Texas House of Representatives on Sunday. The [...]
Thai human rights group iLaw, Southeast Asian internet watchdog Digital Reach and Toronto-based Citizen Lab Monday released a joint report claiming that multiple Thai democracy activists were targeted by a Pegasus spyware attack. The Pegasus software is owned by NSO Group, an Israeli firm, which claims to only sell its Pegasus software to government entities. Pegasus is [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday released a report claiming that El Salvador’s government was not complying with a 2022 Supreme Court ruling requiring the government to allow transgender people to indicate their gender identity on government documents. Several bills have been introduced in parliament to make these processes law, but none have made it past the [...]
