Articles Tagged with Sierra Leone

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens under the 14th Amendment, holding unconstitutional an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office in January 2025 that sought to deny them that status. In Trump v. [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stared on Monday that over the past years Beijing has restructured Hong Kong’s governance in a way that reduces accountability and tightens social control. A “draconian” national security regime is in place that answers to the Chinese Communist Party leadership rather than Hong Kong’s people. Elaine Pearson, Asia director at HRW, [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million judgment finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, ending his effort to overturn the 2023 verdict. The court denied certiorari in Trump v. Carroll in a brief and unexplained order, which is typical [...]

Human Rights Watch on Monday criticized insurgent armed groups, the Malian armed forces and allied militias, and Russian mercenaries, which have all committed “serious abuses of human rights against civilians” amid an insurgency fueled by long-standing ethnic tensions in the country. Commenting on the large scale of atrocities committed against civilians in Mali, senior Sahel [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday that his government was introducing legislation to strengthen the country’s ban on social media accounts for youth under the age of 16. Albanese praised the ban’s success, stating that it has led to the deletion of over five million social media accounts for youth under 16. He [...]

The US Supreme Court said on Monday that Lisa Cook can remain in her position as governor for the Federal Reserve while she contests allegations of mortgage fraud made by President Donald Trump, who fired Cook last August. Writing for the majority in today’s ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected all four of the Trump [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal law does not bar states from counting absentee ballots that arrive after election day, so long as they are postmarked by that date. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that had struck [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday filed an application to bring proceedings against Rwanda over decades of war crimes and violence perpetrated in the DRC’s east. The Congolese government filed the case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ principal court for disputes between states. The DRC accused Rwanda [...]

Amnesty International raised concerns Friday over an absolute blanket ban by the Turkish government on all protests in the capital Ankara ahead of the NATO summit that is to be held in the city this coming week. The statement also decried the pretrial detention of more than 100 people, including lawyers, academics and activists. Amnesty [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled on Friday that the police must transmit an expunged misconduct record to the prosecution if it is relevant in a criminal proceeding. Civil rights group welcomed the ruling, calling it a “big win for the rights of the accused and police accountability.” Justice Sheila Martin, penning the unanimous [...]