Articles Tagged with Donald Trump

In an executive order issued on Thursday, US President Donald Trump formalized a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping to operate TikTok as a “newly established joint venture” in the United States.  ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s parent company, and its affiliates will own less than 20 percent of the US-based entity. The joint venture will have [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for Algerian authorities to put a halt to excessive control over civil society groups, and urged them to enact new laws based on accepted international standards for freedom of association. According to the group, a current proposed bill that seeks to update Law 12-06, enacted in 2012, fails to [...]

The British government on Thursday filed to block a legal challenge to UK-based activist group Palestine Action’s designation as a terrorist organization. The UK Home Office submitted the request to divert a High Court decision from July that approved group leader Huda Ammori’s request for judicial review before the court. If the block succeeds, judicial review [...]

Immigrant rights organization CASA and four Washington, DC residents filed a complaint against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday, claiming that multiple federal officials have engaged in illegal deportations of immigrants since August. The complaint comes after Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., which placed local police under federal control and deployed [...]

The Slovak Parliament must reject constitutional amendments that would limit individuals’ ability to legally change their gender identity, resulting in substantial harm to the LGBTQ+ community, Amnesty International urged on Wednesday. Rado Sloboda, director of Amnesty International Slovakia, condemned the proposed amendments as “draconian,” stating: While the proposed changes specifically target the rights of LGBTI persons [...]

A group of UN human rights experts on Nicaragua revealed in a new report on Tuesday that the Nicaraguan government, led by President Daniel Ortega, has intensified repression of exiled critics abroad. The repression includes legal persecution, denial of passport renewals and other documents, transnational surveillance, and intimidation of family members. Reed Brody, one of [...]

Over 20 rights groups welcomed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi’s refusal to sign a highly criticized draft Criminal Code on Tuesday, calling it a step in the right direction. Sisi’s move sends the code back to parliament for revision. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi refused to sign primarily due to Article 242 of the draft Code, [...]

United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Wednesday condemned Kyrgyzstan’s dissolution of its National Center for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT), warning that the country’s new legislation constitutes a breach of its international legal commitments under the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT).  In Wednesday’s statement, Türk explained his concerns: The decision [...]

The upcoming Riyadh Comedy Festival is being used by the Saudi government to “deflect attention” from human rights abuses and its repression of free speech, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday. HRW stated that the festival is being used to whitewash the government’s human rights violations, with the seventh anniversary of the killing of [...]

The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement warned in a report on Wednesday of the prevalent racism against Africans and people of African descent in criminal justice systems worldwide, a violation of international human rights standards. Experts emphasized that discriminatory practices are embedded in law enforcement institutions [...]