UN Special Rapporteur of the human rights of migrants Felipe González Morales on Monday called for an independent investigation into the death of Jakelin Ameí Caal, a Guatemalan migrant child who died while in US Customs and Border Protection. Jakelin was in custody, along with her family and other migrants, after crossing the Mexico border. The factual [...]

An order issued by India’s federal government on Thursday has authorized 10 of the country’s security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt information from any computer resource. The move has drawn criticism from opposition political parties amid fears of heightened government surveillance infringing on citizens’ right to privacy. Issued by the interior ministry [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled 2-1 Thursday that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the removal and detention claims raised to prevent the deportation of Iraqi nationals. This decision affects the deportation of Iraqi nationals who committed criminal offenses while in the US. Prior to 2017, Iraq did not facilitate [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by the Trump administration to enforce new asylum rules. The new immigration rule, made via Presidential Proclamation November 9, sought to immediately deny asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the US. In Trump’s applicatinn for the Supreme Court to stay the Ninth Circuit’s [...]

President Donald Trump signed on Friday the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill aimed at reducing recidivism and refining sentencing laws and harsh penalties. The US Senate approved the Act Tuesday with a vote of 87 to 12, and the House signed it Thursday 358-36. The bill expands in-prison and post-release employment [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Thursday delayed court proceedings and investigations related to alleged unlawful profits from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. This appeal is in response to a recent Federal court decision that allowed the Attorneys General of both Maryland and Washington, DC to begin discovery as [...]

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a bill Monday that reinstates Supreme Court judges whose forced removal was deemed as a serious violation of democratic standards by the EU. In April Poland passed a law that lowered retirement age from 70 to 65 and led to a forced early retirement of 27 of the 72 Supreme [...]

An Egyptian court on Thursday cleared 40 NGO workers, including at least 15 Americans, from charges in a retrial of a case that caused some tension between Egypt and the US. In 2013 43 workers had been sentenced to jail terms from one to five years, accused of operating NGOs without proper approval. Egypt’s top [...]

Migrants and refugees in Libya are facing severe human rights violations, according to a UN report released Thursday. The UN Support Mission in Libya and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights collaborated to generate this report, which is based on some 1,300 first-hand accounts. The report describes human rights violations by state [...]

The UN General Assembly voted on Wednesday to endorse the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The General Assembly’s vote tally included 152 votes in favor, 12 abstentions, and five votes against, which included the US. The US withdrew its participation from the compact last year due to inconsistencies with its own migration [...]