Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed into law a bill allowing foreign drug importation into the state through two programs. The bill comes alongside DeSantis’ efforts to control prices of prescription drugs in the state. Currently, it is illegal to import prescription drugs from other countries, including Canada. Drugs are typically cheaper because many [...]

German Health Minister Jens Spahn announced plans Tueday to write a new law banning conversion therapy. The new law would ban the practice of conversion therapy, which has been widely discredited by medical professionals. Currently, Germany experiences about 1,000 attempts at conversion therapy every year involving coaches, therapists and in some cases exorcisms. Under the [...]

Canada’s House of Commons approved a bill Monday known as the “Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act.” While the short title of the bill includes whales and dolphins, the Act defines cetacean as “any member of the cetacean order, including a whale, dolphin or porpoise.” The Act amends the Criminal Code to ban [...]

Amnesty International warned Tuesday that war crimes and human rights violations have been ongoing in Sudan’s Darfur region. Following the ouster of former president Omar al-Bashir in April, Sudan has been rocked by political turmoil. Amnesty warned against the proposed plan to withdraw United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers from the region by [...]

The High Court in Botswana unanimously revoked colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex Tuesday. The court held that sections 164(a), 164(c), 165 and 167 of the penal code, which criminalize same-sex relations, are discriminatory and in conflict with the constitution. This section of the penal code includes as an offense “carnal knowledge of any person against [...]

Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau arrested Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former president Asif Ali Zardari Monday following an Islamabad High Court ruling rejecting his bail petition. Zardari is accused of creating and feeding money into fake bank accounts in a corruption scandal involving a number of Pakistani companies and other individuals. Prior to [...]

Nicaragua’s Congress on Saturday approved an amnesty law that will offer protection to police and others involved in crimes against anti-government protesters over the past year. According to rights groups, more than 700 people were arrested in demonstrations that erupted in April 2018 when President Daniel Ortega tried to cut social security. More than 300 [...]

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators lined the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in protest of a new extradition bill that would create a legal mechanism by which individuals could be extradited from Hong Kong to mainland China. Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to retain its own social, legal and political systems for 50 [...]

UN rights experts on Friday called on the UN to enact an independent investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines, citing an increase of unlawful killings and attacks on individuals and institutions defending human rights. The report illustrates the “staggering number” of unlawful deaths and police killings in context of the “war on drugs,” [...]

A bipartisan mix of senators on Wednesday issued 22 separate resolutions to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Arms Export Control Act typically allows Congress 30 days to review potential international arms sales. The Trump administration, though, indicated last month that it intended to use an emergency provision of the act that would bypass [...]