An appeals court in Canada on Tuesday dismissed a recent complaint from First Nations peoples seeking to delay expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The project intends to add capacity for delivery from Alberta’s oil sands to the British Columbia coast, and four First Nations’ groups had sued to prevent the project from going forward. [...]
EU regulators in Dublin on Monday announced a statutory inquiry into Google’s processing of location data and transparency surrounding that processing. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) released a statement launching their investigation into Google’s Irish subsidiary to determine whether the company meets transparency obligations under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or has a [...]
The US House of Representatives on Monday introduced a resolution denouncing Britain’s decision permitting Chinese telecommunications group Huawei to contribute to the Britain’s 5G networks despite Trump administration disapproval. The UK’s National Security Council approved Huawei equipment in “periphery” 5G systems, but not core secure systems, and capped out the telecommunication company’s market share at [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Monday documenting how Tanzania’s health policies deny adequate services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and other people who are at risk of contracting HIV. The report details the escalating attacks against LGBT individuals and how the anti-LGBT crackdown has disabled many of the community [...]
The Trump administration declared a public health emergency on Friday due to increasing outbreaks of the coronavirus. As part of his declaration, President Donald Trump suspended entry of immigrants and visitors who pose a risk of transmitting the disease, as well as imposing a quarantine on citizens arriving from China’s Hubei Provence. The US declaration [...]
Amnesty International on Monday urged participants in a mining conference in South Africa to address human rights violations. African Mining Indaba, a conference centered on promoting the furtherance of the mining industry in Africa, is set to run from Monday through Thursday, but several civil organizations, including Amnesty, are holding their own conference for the [...]
Japanese officials issued a warrant Thursday for three men suspected of smuggling former Nissan chairman, Carlos Ghosn, from Japan. Among the three suspects is Michael Taylor, a former US Green Beret. These warrants follow after Japan issued a warrant for Ghosn and his wife in early January. Japan arrested the former Nissan executive in November [...]
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to take several steps designed to curtail the flow of counterfeit goods into the United States. The order acknowledged that “E-commerce… is being exploited by traffickers to introduce contraband into the United States, and by foreign exporters and United States [...]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday that President Trump had signed a proclamation adding travel restrictions to six more countries, effectively barring potential immigrants from these six countries from entering the United States. The identified countries are Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar. In the statement, DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said [...]
The United Kingdom officially left the European Union at 11 p.m. on Friday, severing a 47 year long relationship with the world’s largest trading bloc. In an address to the nation, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated: The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end, but a beginning… This [...]
