Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on France’s National Assembly to include access to education and other core economic and social rights for children in a recent emergency bill for the French overseas department of Mayotte, an island off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Elvire Fondacci, an advocacy officer at HRW, [...]
The US Supreme Court issued two rulings on Wednesday that establish where challenges to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions should be filed, remanding one lawsuit to regional circuits and directing the other suit to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In the 6-2 and 7-2 decisions, both authored by Justice [...]
A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that US President Donald Trump likely had the authority to mobilize members of the California National Guard over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom in response to protests against US immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. While the court wrote that Trump’s decision [...]
A UN special rapporteur raised concerns on Thursday over the negative effects of political interference on higher education within the US. The expert’s statement emphasized the threat to “academic freedom, student rights, and democratic integrity,” and highlighted the banning of international students from enrollment at Harvard University as an example of this “wider trend.” Farida [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday pushing back the ban on the social media app TikTok another 90 days. The White House said the purpose of the order is to prevent the Department of Justice from enforcing the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Congress passed the act on [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) denounced the “repeated incidents” of “senseless killings” at Gaza’s food distribution sites in a statement released on Wednesday, and called on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to cease the use of lethal force against Palestinians seeking food. The OHCHR detailed how numerous Palestinians have [...]
The US State Department announced Wednesday it would begin reviewing online social media accounts for all student and exchange visitor applicants as part of its visa screening process. All students and exchange visitors applying for visas under the F, M, and J non-immigrant classifications will be required to make their social media profiles public under [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday called upon Turkish authorities to investigate widespread allegations of police violence during largely peaceful protests held across the country recently, and sounded alarm of potential acts of torture as defined under international law. According to Amnesty, law enforcement used tear-gas, pepper spray, water cannons, and kinetic impact projectiles against peaceful protesters, [...]
Provisional new rules agreed upon by the European Parliament and Council will increase transparency for EU political party funding, cut red tape, and protect against foreign interference, the bloc said Tuesday. The new rules are particularly concerned with safeguarding against foreign interference in EU institutions. To be formally recognized and granted funding, European political parties [...]
At the 59th session of the Human Rights Council Thursday, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights stated that the procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by states and businesses must comply with international human rights standards, warning that failure could lead to serious rights violations. UN experts noted a [...]
