A United Nations (UN) rights group released a statement earlier this month expressing concerns that the US government is ignoring treaty rights, as well as human rights, of Native Americans that are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) released the statement after Grand Chief Edward John , an [...]

OnMonday, The Becket Fund announced it had filed suit challenging a new Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation on behalf of North Dakota and several Catholic organizations. The suit, filed in federal district court in North Dakota, alleges the new HHS regulation, which went into force July of this year, requires doctors to perform “controversial [...]

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday announced an agreement with the US to resettle refugees currently in detention centers on the South Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus. The agreement will prioritize the resettlement of women, children and families, and will be carried out under the auspices of the UN High Commission on Refugees [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case brought by Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) against science education policies adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education . COPE alleged that the teaching of scientific evolution and other natural explanations communicates a religious preference and would result in anti-religious instruction. In [...]

Delegates from the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday called on officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take greater responsibility to adopt a consensual and inclusive electoral calendar. A weekend visit by diplomats from UNSC countries aimed to break the deadlock over whether President Joseph Kabila should step down before an [...]

The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) ruled Monday that a controversial West Bank settlement must be dismantled by December 25. The settlement, Amona , had been the subject of negotiations between the state and various other legal and legislative bodies . In 2014, the HCJ ruled that Amona had been built without permission on [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Germany Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to push Turkey to cease post-coup abuses. Steinmeier will visit the country later this week, and HRW claims he will be in a prime position to discuss potential abuses concerning the alleged illegitimate efforts to bring coup perpetrators to justice, the arrest of [...]

The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) reached a peace agreement Saturday to end the guerrilla warfare that has been plaguing the country for more than five decades. Meeting in Havana, the two sides solidified a new deal that alters the deal voters rejected in last month’s referendum. The new deal [...]

Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump filed a motion with the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Saturday requesting that the trial pertaining to Trump University be postponed until after Trump’s inauguration. They had previously requested that the trial be postponed until after the presidential campaign, so the trial is currently set [...]

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved the Formalization Bill on Sunday, which will legalize outposts in the West Bank. These outposts had been previously built without permission from the Palestinians. In part, the bill was intended to stop the evacuation of Amona outpost, which the Israel Supreme Court ruled was built on private Palestinian [...]