The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a prior court’s ruling on Friday that found President Donald Trump’s recent tariffs, specifically the trafficking and reciprocal tariffs, exceeded the authority delegated to the president. In its decision, the court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize a president [...]

A group of 45 UN human rights experts reaffirmed on Thursday that gender must remain central to the fight for equality and human rights worldwide. The statement was signed by UN special procedure mandate holders from various countries, jointly emphasizing that “binary conceptions of sex” result in an incomplete picture of the “social and cultural factors [...]

UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian population. The UN received reports citing several individuals, including one child, who have been forcibly disappeared while visiting food aid distribution centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [...]

The UK Court of Appeal found on Friday that the High Court’s temporary ban on asylum seekers being housed in a hotel in Epping runs the risk of encouraging further violent protests, as the lower court judge weighed them as a factor in favor of granting the injunction. The injunction is now overturned. The Court [...]

Work and the labor market dominate conversations across Egypt. This year has marked a turning point, with a comprehensive new labor law designed to keep pace with today’s economic realities. Classified under Article 121 of the Egyptian Constitution as a “complementary law to the Constitution,” the Labor Law governs one of the country’s most fundamental [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Friday in a 6-3 ruling, finding that she had acted in violation of constitutional ethics provisions. The court’s final ruling, which is not subject to appeal under Thai law, immediately terminated Shinawatra’s position under Section 170 of the Constitution. The ruling results in the immediate dissolution [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a news release on Thursday condemned the expulsion of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar “without rights protections.” The news release also alleges that the Indian authorities have “arbitrarily detained several hundred more” Rohingya refugees while also “mistreating some of them.” HRW said the nationwide push began in May, when [...]

Amnesty International on Friday lauded the Central African Republic’s ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol. Amnesty International Senior Researcher Abdoulaye Diarra praised the move as a “welcome and long-awaited step in promoting and protecting women [...]

A senior UN official voiced concern Thursday about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, stating that approximately 30 million—nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population—are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance as the civil war persists. During a press briefing in New York, the director of operations and advocacy for the UN Office for the Coordination of [...]

Corruption constitutes a multifaceted socio-political issue that significantly impacts the political, economic, and social dimensions of society. Its emergence is rooted in the distortion of established management practices and mechanisms and persists as a global challenge, influencing nations irrespective of their levels of economic development. Notably, even the most developed democracies are susceptible to corruption. [...]