Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]
UN experts condemned Israel’s continued attempts to take over the Palestinian West Bank on Wednesday, following approved measures that grants Israel power to purchase land in the occupied territory with almost no limitations. Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, stated: These measures are [...]
UN experts on Wednesday urged member nations to place a higher emphasis on curbing the over-criminalization of women and girls across the globe ahead of 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). The announcement detailed reports on the dramatic increase in incarceration of women in recent decades. Women’s imprisonment has increased [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report Thursday containing Palestinian journalists’ first-hand accounts of torture in Israeli prisons. The stories come from 59 testimonies of released journalists. Forty-eight of them were never charged with a crime, but detained under Israeli policies allowing six-month detentions without charge, renewable indefinitely. Others were charged with [...]
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) and the UN Support Mission in Libya published a report on Tuesday detailing the systematic human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya. The report homed in on four human rights challenges that these individuals tend to face: (1) illegal and dangerous interceptions [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)’s mass killings and related atrocities committed during the October 2025 takeover of El Fasher region in Sudan showed “hallmarks of genocide” against Sudanese ethnic communities. The Mission urged an immediate intervention to ensure the protection of civilians [...]
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office as part of an investigation linked to disclosures in the recently released Epstein files, UK media reported. The Thames Valley Police released a statement confirming that a man in his 60s was taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct in [...]
More than 80 rights groups and individuals jointly called on British Columbia (BC) to recommit to implementing Indigenous rights on Wednesday. In the statement, the groups urged the government not to amend the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and the Interpretation Act, so as to preserve the reconciliation efforts that [...]
Australia issued a Temporary Exclusion Order (TEO) on Wednesday to prevent an Australian citizen in detention in northeast Syria from returning home because of security concerns. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirmed that the TEO has been issued under the Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Act 2019 (Cth). Minister Burke stated: “I can confirm that one individual [...]
