The Court of Justice of the European Union General Court (EUCJ) ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission’s refusal to give the New York Times access to communication exchanges between the European Commission (EC) president and Pfizer was incorrect. The court thereby annulled the EC decision. The General Court recognized that, although all institutional documents [...]
Major social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter), are failing to adequately protect LGBTQ+ users from hate, harassment, and disinformation, according to the 2025 Social Media Safety Index released Tuesday by the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD. The annual report’s fifth edition, which evaluates the performance of major platforms on 14 LGBTQ-specific safety [...]
In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights globally. HRW outlined several actions in the letter that the Australian government should take under four main areas of its foreign policy to promote human [...]
The Scottish parliament on Tuesday voted to advance a historic assisted dying bill, following a stage one debate. The bill, introduced by MSP Liam McArthur, is a historic step towards providing physician-assisted dying for terminally ill adults. The proposed bill was approved at stage one with 70 votes to 56. The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill [...]
A group of UN human rights experts condemned on Wednesday the widespread and persistent violence against women and girls in Sudan as the armed conflict enters its third year. They found that many of the attacks were attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called for urgent action to end these atrocities. The experts [...]
A US federal grand jury in Wisconsin indicted Judge Hannah Dugan on Tuesday for obstructing immigration agents. Dugan was arrested last month and is accused of obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and concealing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the foreign national ICE agents sought to apprehend in her courtroom. Dugan, who was suspended following her arrest, [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged newly-elected Pope Leo XIV to initiate an immediate review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government. The Vatican-China agreement was signed between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China in 2018, aiming to bridge decades of division between state-sanctioned churches and underground Catholic communities [...]
A US federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and his administration may use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) to deport Venezuelan citizens accused of gang membership as long as the government offers “sufficient notice and due process.” Judge Stephanie Haines ruled that the government must give “greater notice” [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed concern Tuesday regarding the number of deportations of individuals from the US. According to Türk, the deportations raise “serious concerns regarding a wide array of rights … rights to due process, to be protected from arbitrary detention, to equality before the law, to be protected from [...]
The chair of the Bulgarian National Assembly on Tuesday rejected President Rumen Radev’s proposal for a referendum on Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro as national currency. As reported by the Bulgarian News Agency, the proposal for a referendum did not comply with several legislative instruments. Nataliya Kiselova, chair of the National Assembly, rejected the proposal [...]
