Three Australian class action firms, purporting to represent as many as 9.7 million customers Monday announced a landmark Australian data breach class action plan against insurance provider Medibank after entering a joint cooperation agreement the previous week. The firms, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Bannister Law Class Actions and Centennial Lawyers, entered the agreement in relation to [...]

Climate activist group Friends of the Earth UK (FOTE) Monday released an application it filed to the High Court against the government for its decision to approve a new coal mine in the northwestern county, Cumbria. In a press release from FOTE, campaigner Tony Bosworth said that the “legal challenge focuses on how the Secretary [...]

In an open letter addressed to US President Joe Biden, Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi announced Monday he had commenced a hunger strike in Iran’s Evin Prison, where he has been imprisoned since 2015 on charges including espionage and colluding with a “hostile foreign government.” Namazi, a US citizen, had been arrested in October 2015 but [...]

The UK government Monday introduced amendments to the pending Public Order Bill to change the definition of “serious disruption,” broadening the range of situations in which police in England and Wales may act to stop protests. Activists from groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain have drawn criticism for blocking roads [...]

The Mexican Government Sunday banned smoking in public and restricted the advertisement of tobacco products as the country’s new General Tobacco Law came into force. The new regulations increase scrutiny on the manufacture, use, and advertisement of tobacco in order to ensure that public spaces are tobacco-free. The General Tobacco Law is among the world’s [...]

The UK Government Monday decided to block the Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, signed to make it easier for people to change their legally recognised gender. This action marks a constitutional first in UK history since this is the first time the UK government has used the Scotland Act 1998 to veto Scottish legislation. [...]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams Sunday traveled to the US-Mexico border and declared that “there is no room” for migrants in his city. Adams called on the US government to help larger cities manage unprecedented levels of immigration and claimed that the influx of migrants could cost NYC up to $2 billion. “The federal [...]

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Monday released statistics showing the number of deaths and arrests of anti-government protestors in Iran protestors since September 2022. 522 protestors, including 70 children, have been killed. Authorities have arrested 19,400 people. 168 are children and 110 of those arrested are “under impending threat” of a death sentence. Four [...]

The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) Monday released a report identifying international companies which are helping the Myanmar military junta (Tatmadaw) to commit atrocities by supplying them weapons it has used to repress the country’s population. Titled “Fatal Business: Supplying the Myanmar Military’s Weapon Production,” the report argues that the junta’s gross violation of [...]

The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Commission Monday released a report detailing 7,000 complaints—including sexual misconduct, serious injury, abuse and neglect—in connection with the supported accommodation services, specifically group homes. Australia’s independent multiplatform media company Disability Support Guide says the number of complaints equates to one in three residents experiencing a reportable incident. “There [...]