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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday published a proposal for a $103, 265 fee on those filing a “cap-subject” petition for an H-1B visa. The new fee would apply to all H-1B petitions, regardless of if the worker is inside or outside of the US, except for those filed by universities, certain non-profits [...]

Amnesty International reported on Monday that international failure to ensure children’s online safety from Big Tech harms is connected to a lack of youth perspectives in policy-making spaces. Classifying existing solutions as performative, the organization pointed out that increasing surveillance, data tracking, and censorship is a major threat to their safety. Children face “risks such [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury concrete and imminent enough to make their claims justiciable before the November midterm election. In Trump v. [...]

The New Zealand government announced on Monday that it has introduced a bill to ban social media for youth under 16. The law would require social media platforms and AI companions to verify users’ ages before providing services. The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require an age restriction on [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that armed groups in Colombia have increased their recruitment of children, citing what it described as an ineffective government response to the growing problem. In a report titled “‘I Thought I’d Never See My Mom Again’: Recruitment and Use of Children by Colombian Armed Groups,” HRW examined the factors [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday announced a $400 million settlement with Tiktok over children’s privacy concerns, effectively ending a dispute that has been ongoing for over two years. The case concerned allegations of obtaining personal information of children under 13 without parental consent. TikTok will pay $300 million immediately; the remaining $100 [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ecuadorian authorities to drop all legal and financial penalties against activists behind the 2023 Yasuní Referendum, warning that the looming fines are part of a broader crackdown on civic space and dissent in the country. The Yasuní Referendum was a national ballot initiative to bar oil drilling within Yasuní [...]

The United Nations on Friday launched a new initiative to safeguard victims of terror attacks from online harm and re-traumatization, with its primary aim being to ensure a victim-centered approach to building a safer environment for internet users. Friday, i.e, August 21, marks the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of [...]

The UN warned on Friday that the global decrease in funding for humanitarian aid has forced aid programs and facilities in Somalia to shut down, and is resulting in increasingly severe consequences for Somali children. According to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder, aid cuts closed doors to healthcare and deprived people, including children, [...]

ICE deported over 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administrative repeal of temporary protected status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitians, despite pervasive gang violence throughout the country. The charter flight landed in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, instead of capital Port-au-Prince, as gangs [...]