Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the US House of Representatives Tuesday for not administering the oath of office to representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election to the House on September 23. The complaint follows a letter from Mayes to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that Grijalva be sworn in. Mayes now asks [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday that Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and periodically used disproportionate force against protesters since September 2025. Security forces have reportedly used tear gas, batons, and other “less-lethal” weapons indiscriminately and at close range, resulting in injury and, in some cases, death. HRW verified [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right violations and medical negligence in the country’s penal system. The deceased prisoners were identified as Soudabeh Asadi, Jamile Azizi, and Somayeh Rashidi. Asadi, who was [...]
The 195 member states of the UN Trade and Development organization (UNCTAD) gathered Monday in Geneva for its 16th conference, where leaders discussed the implementation of current World Trade Organization (WTO) rules concerning tariffs imposed by the United States on its trade partners. US tariffs threaten to put significant pressure on global trade and developing [...]
A UN report published on Monday revealed that women are still largely excluded from international community activities in the fields of peacemaking and security. The report analyzed the rising number of conflicts globally and their effect on women. International conflict rates are the highest they have been since 1946, and roughly 676 million women lived [...]
Amnesty International accused TikTok of insufficiently protecting vulnerable children and teenagers from psychologically harmful content on Monday, reconfirming 2023 findings that young users interested in mental health-related content are often led to a “rabbit hole” of videos featuring depressive themes and suicidal ideation. It called for the company to move to a rights-respecting business model [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday urged Madagascar authorities to investigate two shootings and two assaults of journalists covering current the political upheaval and protests. CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative, Moussa Ngom, expressed deep concern over the matter: It is unacceptable that journalists who were simply reporting on a major news event were targeted [...]
The University of Arizona (UA) and Vanderbilt University became the latest institutions not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” UA specifically stated that it has not agreed to the compact. Vanderbilt provided an update saying it was looking forward to “continuing the conversation” but that it was only asked to [...]
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach international law obligations. Türk declared that the proposals to reintroduce the death penalty as a response to serious crimes should be discontinued. Kyrgyzstan should focus on “ensuring the effective protection of the law and adequate [...]
A US appeals court order issued Monday granted President Donald Trump and his administration’s request to stay a temporary restraining order that prevented the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. However, despite the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Trump administration cannot yet deploy National [...]
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