The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new federal moratorium on evictions on Tuesday in counties with heightened levels of community transmission amid “unexpected developments in the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the rise of the Delta variant.” The CDC’s previous moratorium on evictions expired Saturday and with the Supreme Court’s [...]
Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday charged pro-democracy activist Au Nok-hin and 59-year-old singer Wong Yiu-ming with “corrupt conduct” for allegedly breaching election laws by having Wong perform two songs at a 2018 election rally to induce people to vote for Au in a legislative by-election. Wong Yiu-ming, aka Anthony Wong, and [...]
New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday formally announced that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. The announcement comes at the end of a five-month investigation led by former federal prosecutor Joon Kim and employment attorney Anne Clark. The investigation, which included interviews with 179 people, revealed that “Cuomo’s administration was a [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday denied a motion for an injunction pending appeal upholding the lower court’s own denial of a motion for preliminary injunction against Indiana University’s mandate that all students get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campus in the fall. Indiana University’s vaccination policy requires all [...]
Five journalists who were on the list of alleged surveillance targets by Indian government agencies using Israeli hacking software Pegasus on Monday filed writ petitions with the Supreme Court of India stating that the agencies violated their fundamental rights, guaranteed under the Constitution of India, through unauthorized use of surveillance. According to the petitioners, the [...]
New York state’s Nassau County Legislature Monday voted 12-6 to pass a bill that allows first responders to sue protesters for harassment and other unlawful discriminatory practices. The bill declares that it is an “unlawful discriminatory practice to harass, menace, assault or injure an individual due to such individual’s status as a first responder.” Individuals [...]
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing officer recommended on Monday that employees at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, hold a second election due to interference and intimidation by the retail giant. Amazon opened its Bessemer fulfillment plant in March 2020, which coincided with the beginning of the pandemic. A lack of COVID-19 safety [...]
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission announced Sunday that it will hold a national inquiry into the country’s housing crisis. The Commission also released a framework that gives 21 guidelines on the right to a decent home in New Zealand. The Commission will use the framework in a national inquiry into the right to a decent [...]
An unnamed 100-year-old former guard at Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp during World War II has been indicted on 3,518 counts of accessory to murder. The Neuruppin state court said Monday said that the defendant will stand trial in October. The defendant is alleged to have served at the camp on the outskirts of Berlin between [...]
The European Council (“the Council”) on Monday imposed sanctions on eight Nicaraguan individuals, including Vice President Rosario Murillo, for serious human rights violations and actions that “undermined democracy or the rule of law.” Murillo also happens to be Nicaragua’s First Lady. Noting that its previous calls to the Nicaraguan government to abide by its own Constitution [...]
