The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of  New Mexico, ending the latest chapter in a decades-old water dispute involving the Pecos River. The conflict involves how water is apportioned between New Mexico and Texas under an interstate compact first approved by Congress in the mid-twentieth century. Texas v. New Mexico centers around [...]

US Attorney General William Barr submitted his resignation letter on Monday to President Donald Trump. Trump posted the letter on Twitter shortly afterwards. In his letter, Barr praised Trump’s accomplishments. As Trump’s second attorney general, he launched a probe of the 2016 Russia investigation, deterred asylum seekers, and attempted to punish protesters and cities for unrest [...]

Recently, Kavya Solanki of Gujarat, India has become the first-ever “Saviour Sibling” of India. She was conceived in order to provide bone marrow for her elder sibling, Abhijeet Solanki, suffering from the life-threatening disease Thalassemia. Saviour children are the children created through the Assisted Reproductive Techniques so that they are genetically compatible with the other sibling [...]

New Zealand’s Director of Human Rights Proceedings, Michael Timmins, announced Sunday that the parties to a sexual harassment proceeding have reached a settlement recognizing the right of all workers to a workplace that is free from sexual harassment. Although most details of the settlement are confidential, Timmins said in a press release that a female [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama over conditions in state prisons, asserting that Alabama has failed to protect prisoners from violence. The DOJ brought its lawsuit under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act as well as the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. The [...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld President-elect Joe Biden’s win on Monday, rejecting President Donald Trump’s lawsuit denying ballot results. Justice Brian Hagedorn delivered the court’s opinion, securing Biden’s victory in Wisconsin. Justice Hagedorn said that the challenges to voting laws “come long after the last play or even the last game; the Campaign is challenging [...]

The Constitutional Court of Austria found the ban on assisted death unconstitutional on Friday as a violation of an individual’s right to self-determination. The decision came after various affected stakeholders, including two terminally ill individuals, requested removal of the provision. Section 78 of the Criminal Code of Austria made the act of “assisting suicide” a criminal offense. [...]

The Constitutional Court of Austria ruled Friday that the ban on wearing headscarves in elementary schools is unconstitutional as a violation of the principle of equality in connection with an individual’s right to religious freedom. Section 43a of the School Education Act of 1986 prohibited the wearing of any ideological or religious clothing involving the [...]

The national civil registry of Bolivia recognized for the first time on Friday a same-sex civil union after a two-year legal battle between the applicants, a gay couple, and the administrative authorities. The case stemmed from an application by David Aruquipa and Guido Montaño, who had applied to register their relationship as a “free union” [...]

In a report submitted Thursday to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Together, the Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights, called for changes to Scotland’s compulsory religious instruction law. The report cites 30 areas of concern identified by the participants of a series of webinars and surveys conducted by Together in an effort [...]