A group of independent UN human rights experts called  upon Bahrain to end human rights violations and investigate events surrounding the State of National Safety declared in 2011. The experts warned against military courts exercising jurisdiction over civilians and discrimination based on gender, gender identity and ethnicity. The report called for abolishment of the death penalty and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday allowed  a major class action settlement involving Remington firearms to proceed. The class action lawsuit against Remington Arms Company alleged that “certain Remington rifles were susceptible to unintentional firing without a trigger pull.” The class members “sought to require Remington to repair or replace [...]

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a proposed amendment to the Law on National Council on Thursday that would grant the Polish government significant power in appointing Polish Supreme Court Justices. Prior to the enactment of the amendment and a series of prior amendments, the Polish National Judiciary Council had the power to make judicial appointments. The [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled  Wednesday that Chino Valley school board meetings, which are open to the public and include student attendees, may not include prayers or other religious exercises. The Chino Valley school board argued that its prayer policy fell under the legislative-prayer tradition and would therefore not violate [...]

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)  on Wednesday appointed a three-member legal panel to conduct a war crimes probe into the alleged Israeli human rights violations on the Gaza border. The resolution to “urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry was backed on Friday. Twenty-nine members of the council voted for, 14 members abstained, [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said  Wednesday that the judicial authority considering postponement of a European arrest warrant must assess whether there exists “a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment within the meaning of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ,” a decision that could impact Poland’s ability to extradite from other [...]

The Minnesota Supreme Court  remanded  a 2015 class action lawsuit concerning racial and socio-economic segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools to the district court on Wednesday. The court of appeals had thrown the case out last year. The appellants, who are parents of Minnesota schoolchildren, alleged that the state violated the Education, Equal Protection and [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Florida  ruled  Tuesday that Florida’s near ban on early voting on college campuses violates the First, Fourteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments. The lawsuit was brought by six University of Florida and Florida State University students, the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Adam Goodman Foundation. The [...]

Iowa Judge Karen Romano  of the Polk County District Court  granted a temporary injunction  blocking portions of Iowa’s new voter identification law relating to absentee ballots. Romano filed the injunction Tuesday, which was made public Wednesday. The injunction halts the parts of House File 516 , which change the amount of time to cast an absentee ballot from 40 to 29 [...]

From degrading disabled people, women, LGBT individuals, and other minorities to the forsaking of the United Nation Human Rights Council, and from separating migrant families to the coddling of authoritarians and racists, this presidency consistently ridicules human rights. It follows that the State Department’s first international conference to Advance Religious Freedom might trigger a collective [...]