The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday, in its ongoing antitrust battle, that Google is barred from entering exclusionary contracts relating to generative AI or preloading Google Search on applications. The court found that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android devices, which are part of the Google [...]
The UK government introduced new legislation which will require the Justice Secretary and the Lord or Lady Chief Justice to approve the Sentencing Council‘s proposed guidelines for courts. The bill, currently in its second reading, compels the Lord or Lady Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor to accept Sentencing Council proposals for courts in England and [...]
Amnesty International on Monday called for urgent humanitarian assistance to address the escalating crisis in the wake of a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31. Entire villages were destroyed across Kunar, Nangarhar, and Lagham provinces, leaving thousands dead or injured and countless families without shelter. In a statement, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty [...]
Amnesty International on Monday urged Indonesian authorities to investigate the deaths of at least eight people, following a violent crackdown on nationwide protests that began August 25. Demonstrations took place across Indonesia last week, drawing thousands of people into the streets to protest low wages as well as new tax increases and pay raises for [...]
A proposed budget cut to the Colombian Ombudsperson’s office would impair its ability to protect the Colombian citizens’ human rights at a critical moment, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday. Amid exacerbating conflict and political violence, the organization claimed the cuts would hinder office capabilities on top of other funding issues. In addition to creating [...]
Human Rights Watch on Monday denounced Cambodia’s National Assembly for approving amendments to the citizenship law that empower the government to strip or deny citizenship as a means of silencing critics, warning that the move could fuel politically motivated statelessness and deepen repression in the country. The new amendments empower the Cambodian government to strip [...]
Amnesty International released a new investigative report on Tuesday detailing extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians by the Syrian government and affiliated forces in the Suwayda governorate on July 15-16. The human rights organization confirmed that 46 individuals—44 men and two women—were deliberately shot dead, while two older victims were subjected to mock executions. These killings [...]
A Brazilian prosecutor on Tuesday urged the country’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro for orchestrating an attempted coup d’état as the trial of the ex-president and seven co-defendants entered its final stage. Bolsonaro is accused of trying to derail the transfer of power to now-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [...]
A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated the law by deploying military forces to conduct crowd control and arrests in Los Angeles, marking a significant legal rebuke of the administration’s domestic use of armed forces. In June, the president deployed military personnel to Los Angeles in a bid to quell protests [...]
Amnesty International on Monday released a report finding that X (formerly Twitter) allowed for the spread of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV) against LGBTQ+ people in Poland. The report charges that Elon Musk relaxed X’s Community Guidelines regarding the content allowed on the platform after taking ownership. Consequently, X has become “awash with content constituting TfGBV,” [...]
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