US President Donald J. Trump has launched his most dangerous act of aggression yet on the world stage. Posterity will be taking copious notes on how the world responds.  Trump’s illegal February 28, 2026, attack on Iran came after he offered the Trojan horse of sham “diplomacy” to de-escalate a purported nuclear threat to the [...]

A federal judge ruled Saturday that all of Kari Lake’s official actions in her brief appointment as CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) “shall have no force or effect.” The motion for summary judgment ruling was a victory for the employees of Voice of America, a government-funded media broadcaster that sued after [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Israel to halt the use of white phosphorus munitions, reporting their use over civilian homes in Yohmor, a southern town in Lebanon, on March 3. HRW’s accusation of white phosphorus use is backed by seven images of airburst chemical munitions, which the rights group verified and geolocated. In one [...]

Amnesty International’s secretary general Agnès Callamard on Monday urged UN member states to step up collective resistance against global attacks on gender justice and women’s rights during the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). Leading Amnesty’s delegation, Callamard spoke on the global backlash against gender equality gains. She pointed to [...]

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released a report Friday revealing that global progress toward gender parity in national parliaments has slowed to its lowest rate in nearly a decade. Released ahead of International Women’s Day, the “Women in Parliament in 2025” report indicates that women held 27.5 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide as of January 1, [...]

Amnesty International on Friday warned that the Israeli military’s sweeping evacuation orders across Lebanon sow panic and worsen humanitarian suffering after orders covering more than 100 locales in the country’s south and east, and the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. The organization said warnings provide insufficient guidance for civilians [...]

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, “Jim Crow Must Go.” He had returned from a civil rights meeting where he’d discussed voter registration strategies. A bullet struck him moments later, fired by a white [...]

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday sentenced in absentia 47 leaders and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to 10 years imprisonment on terrorism charges. Judge Amjad Ali Shah of the Anti-Terrorism Court-1 in Rawalpindi sentenced the 47 on charges under 21-L of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997. [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday urged authorities in Iran to lift restrictions on internet and communication services, citing concerns that civilians are being left unable to access potentially lifesaving information in the midst of the armed conflict with the US and Israel. Tomiwa Ilori, senior technology researcher at Human Rights Watch, stated: “Shutting down the internet [...]

The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria (COI) announced on Friday that it has completed an in-country mission to Damascus as it prepares to brief the Council in Geneva on March 13. The Commission said it pressed Syria’s transitional authorities on accountability, institutional reform, and protections for civil society amid renewed regional [...]