The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the US. The ruling follows a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individual beneficiaries, sponsors of humanitarian parole processes, [...]

A coalition of attorneys general from 17 US states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the implementation of President Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order stopping wind project approvals (Wind Directive). The lawsuit seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions stopping all federal agencies from implementing the Wind Directive for being arbitrary and [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan condemned an aerial bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Fangak county by the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) as an atrocity crime on Tuesday. According to MSF, two helicopter gunships carried out the strike which obliterated the hospital on Sunday, May 4. [...]

Amnesty International warned in a report on Monday that Pakistan’s healthcare and disaster response systems failed to meet the needs of the elderly and children, who were the most vulnerable to the risks of death and disease due to extreme weather events related to climate change. The report noted the increasing frequency of heatwaves and [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday dropped the prosecution of seven individuals charged with trespassing and resisting and/or obstructing a police officer for their conduct related to the police clearing of an encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024. The seven defendants were Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad [...]

UN human rights experts on Monday called on the Council of Europe to begin the negotiation on initiating a binding protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights recognizing the right to a healthy environment. Europe must respond decisively to science, justice, and its citizens, the experts stated, noting that youth and marginalized communities disproportionately [...]

Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed charges of five tax violations against former King Juan Carlos on Monday due to a lack of new evidence, upholding a prosecutor’s 2022 exoneration of all tax violations that were found. The case was brought by a group of former jurists who argued that only a court can exonerate an individual [...]

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) filed a lawsuit on Monday against its classification by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization. The legal action was filed in the Cologne Administrative Court and claimed that the classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) infringes upon democratic competition and [...]

The UN Humanitarian Country Team on Sunday condemned Israel’s continuing border closures, now in a ninth consecutive week, which have prevented all humanitarian aid deliveries. The team  alleged that Israel militarised all aid distribution rather facilitating it through humanitarian organizations such as the UN. The team emphasized how the humanitarian situation has exponentially worsened over [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday dismissed Sudan’s case accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of violating the Genocide Convention by arming and financing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group implicated in atrocities over the course of Sudan’s ongoing civil war. The ICJ found that it lacked jurisdiction to proceed. In [...]