Articles Tagged with net neutrality

Canadian rights groups on Monday filed an urgent challenge to the constitutionality of Ontario’s mandatory cash bail policy. The challenge argued that the provincial policy violates the Charter rights to the presumption of innocence and to reasonable bail, as well as the rules of Canadian federalism. The Criminal Lawyers’ Association and the Canadian Civil Liberties [...]

United Nations (UN) experts warned on Monday that the UK’s revisions to the Equality Act 2010 risk discriminating against and excluding transgender people. The UN human rights experts warned that the updated Code of Practice essentially advises service providers that “a women’s service must either exclude transgender women or admit men” and vice versa. The [...]

Security forces in Morocco prevented nearly 300 “irregular migrants” from crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, and arrested hundreds of other would-be migrants in the city of Fnideq, northern Morocco, on Saturday, according to local media. The actions occurred amid a persistent migration crisis in the region. According to a Moroccan security source, authorities [...]

The UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Ben Saul, urged the government of Mozambique on Friday to strengthen its efforts to protect human rights when combating terrorism and to address the root causes of the conflict. In a statement concluding his ten-day visit to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday warned that Russia’s latest attack on Kyiv, which utilized cluster munitions in a crowded residential area, may constitute a war crime under international law, citing the weapon’s indiscriminate nature. Commenting on the August 5 attack, HRW assistant Ukraine researcher Kseniya Kvitka stated: Russia has once again fired an inherently [...]

Luigi Mangione on Friday pleaded guilty to the two remaining charges against him in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. The charges of interstate stalking resulting in death and stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, [...]

Myanmar announced on Saturday that it had undertaken steps to receive Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and will continue working with the country to support the return of those it verifies as former residents of Rakhine State, maintaining that the repatriation process should be handled primarily as a bilateral matter between Myanmar and Bangladesh, and not [...]

The US Court of International Trade issued summary judgment in favor of the Trump administration on Thursday in a case brought by a US auto-parts dealer challenging a presidential order that closed a tariff loophole for imports under $800. Plaintiff Detroit Axle sued the administration in May 2025 following numerous executive orders under a declared [...]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday announced plans to spend up to $20 million to equip officers with gloves that force “compliance” by delivering a painful electrical shock, according to a published contract. The manufacturer, Compliant Technologies, calls them “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices.” GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) is often known as [...]

The Constitutional Council of France blocked the country’s new under-15 social media ban on Friday, holding that the ban was unconstitutional. The council reasoned that the ban unjustifiably deprived children of their right to freedom of expression and communication. The council found that the ban on all online platforms that allow users to connect and [...]