A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction at a hearing on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end all birthright citizenship. The plaintiffs, CASA, Inc., Asylum Advocacy Project, and five pregnant mothers under pseudonyms, filed the lawsuit against Trump, among other government officials, [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at keeping transgender women out of women’s sports by rescinding all funds from educational programs that allow transgender women to compete in women’s categories or to use women’s changing rooms. Trump stated that the goal of this executive order is to “protect opportunities for women and [...]

DunixeBerlanas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The EU General Court on Wednesday upheld a significant financial penalty against Poland, amounting to approximately €320 million, over its non-compliance with EU laws through its judicial reforms enacted in 2019. The European Commission argued that legislative changes to Poland’s judicial system, specifically those adopted in December 2019, [...]

Minh Quang Pham, an accused member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2011. The sentence was handed down by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to [...]

Human rights organizations called on the EU Tuesday to enact a complete ban on all trade and business with Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territories. In a joint letter to the EU president more than 160 human rights groups, trade unions, and civil society groups urged the European Commission to adhere to obligations set out [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Meta, parent company of Facebook, liable for its alleged role in helping radicalize Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. The court upheld a lower district court’s decision after a woman, identified only as M.P., filed a complaint asserting that [...]

INTERPOL reported on Tuesday that “Operation Thunder” 2024 against wildlife and forestry trafficking, coordinated jointly with the World Customs Organization (WCO), resulted in the seizure of nearly 20,000 live animals and the arrest of 365 suspects. In 2024, Operation Thunder united law enforcement agencies from 138 countries and regions, making it the largest-ever global operation [...]

Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, has sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the removal of public health information considered to be a part [...]

Amnesty International urged the government of the Philippines on Wednesday to cease using the country’s anti-terrorism laws against development workers and human rights activists, and to halt its “crackdown” on human rights organizations. The rights group called on the Philippine authorities to amend their current legislation and to implement a suitable environment that allows human [...]

Two groups of FBI employees sued (see here and here) the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to protect agents who were involved in the investigation of persons suspected of being involved in the attack on the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, and of the unlawful removal of classified documents by Donald Trump to [...]