The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against Florida’s law restricting minors’ access to social media, holding that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Kevin Newsom concluded that Florida House Bill 3 (HB3) implicated the social [...]

Sri Lankan Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Hemachandra announced on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday that the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia quashed the death sentence of Anojan Sivarasa, a 24-year-old Tamil migrant worker arrested in July over a Facebook comment. On September 17, an appellate court increased his sentence from five years’ imprisonment and a fine [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday stated that Iran’s execution of five individuals in one week were based on unfair trials and called on the international community to respond. Between September 30 and October 5, Iran executed five men—Majid Nikandish, Ali Hemmati Sistanian, Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, Alireza Raisi and Alireza Sepahi—convicted in connection with anti-government protests, prompting [...]

Several state attorneys general on Wednesday filed individual lawsuits in their state courts against the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the policies of its generative chatbot ChatGPT are harmful to children and deceitful to parents. The states that have filed suits include Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, West Virginia and Nebraska. The suits [...]

UN experts on Wednesday welcomed a recent ruling by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) relating to Macro-Case 08, recognizing the responsibility of an Ecopetrol director and several state agents for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and serious human rights violations. The ruling concerns abuses committed during the armed conflict in Barrancabermeja in the late [...]

15 October 2026: International Day of Rural Women Rural women around the world are integral to managing natural resources and food production. Dalí Nolasco Cruz, an Indigenous woman from Tlaola, a village in the Mexican state of Puebla, speaks powerfully about the intimate connections between food production and women’s oppression, stating: It is is incredible [...]

Argentina on Tuesday submitted a request to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, seeking an order for provisional measures against the United Kingdom to halt British exploitation of hydrocarbon resources on the continental shelf to the north of the Falkland Islands. The move comes amid an ongoing dispute between the two states [...]

A UN expert on Monday called on states to emphasize and strengthen prevention as the most effective and sustainable means of combating the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children. Ai Kihara-Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, presented her first report to the General Assembly this week. [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the question of whether the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be required by courts to disclose records on DOGE’s interactions with other federal agencies. The first question the Court will consider is whether the court of appeals’ order complies with Cheney v. United States [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) joined eighteen other human rights organizations on Monday in condemning the Turkish government for escalating internet censorship, stating that the measures were a violation of the right to freedom of expression. In September, İFÖD, Türkiye’s Freedom of Expression Association, reported that 1,270 accounts on X were geo-blocked in Türkiye. X complied with [...]