Articles Tagged with United Nations

Voters in six states Tuesday approved sweeping constitutional amendments that restrict voting access, limit judicial discretion on bail, and constrain future legislative authority, raising concerns about the erosion of democratic flexibility and due process protections. The most significant rule-of-law implications emerged in election administration and criminal justice. Texas voters approved a citizenship voting requirement with [...]

Chief Judge John McConnell for the US District Court of Rhode Island ruled Tuesday that the Department of Transportation (DOT) cannot require states to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in order to receive federal transportation funding. The case was brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general in May, claiming that the DOT and other federal [...]

Moldovan authorities must swiftly investigate death threats sent to an investigative journalist following her public interview with a well-known political figure, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Monday. Journalist and television host Mariana Rață shared threatening messages she received on social media following her online interview with Renato Usatîi, leader of populist Partidul Nostru [...]

The NAACP’s Virginia Chapter on Monday sued the Virginia Board of Elections for rejecting college students’ applications and same-day registration provisional ballots. The complaint stated that application and registration requirements are unduly cumbersome for college students, effectively hindering their right to vote: On too many college and university campuses in Virginia, however, the right to [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday urged Indian authorities to protect Washington Post columnist and investigative journalist Rana Ayyub and her family after she received multiple threats of violence from an unidentified caller who appeared to know her home address. “The threats of violence made against Rana Ayyub and her father from an [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported that large-scale immigration raids in Los Angeles, carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies this year, violated Latino residents’ civil rights and utilized racial profiling. According to the organization, since May ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other federal law enforcement [...]

UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk praised Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous peoples on Monday, calling it a “historic step toward self-determination for the country’s First Peoples.” While still pending assent, the Victoria Statewide Treaty instates constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, a goal called for by Indigenous leaders in the [...]

The UN adopted the Doha Political Declaration at the second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar on Tuesday, calling on countries to “integrate quality education as a core component of poverty reduction strategies.” The declaration encourages nations to implement poverty reduction policies that are sensitive to the needs of children and calls for the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday urged Spanish authorities to swiftly investigate an attack on reporter José Ismael Martínez that occurred during clashes between police and far-left protesters in Pamplona on October 30. The group stated authorities should prosecute the perpetrators and protect journalists during protests.  At the protest by far-left Basque separatists, [...]

Amnesty International stated on Tuesday that the South African government failed to provide adequate housing and essential services to more than five million people living in informal settlements, which are highly susceptible to severe flooding. Based on the findings of its recent report, Amnesty International South Africa found that the government’s response to flooding disasters [...]