Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Monday bringing to light increased hate speech, violence, and legislative and administrative harassment towards Central Asian migrants in the Russian Federation, following the tragic Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow in March 2024. The HRW report highlighted the anti-migrant legislature that has been continuously implemented in Russia since [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston-based midwife, for performing abortions and in the northwest Houston area. This marks the first known criminal arrest of an abortion provider since the Supreme Court  overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. Performing an abortion is a second degree felony in Texas. [...]

Once upon a time in America, there was a political movement that saw the adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow as misguided at best, nefarious at worst.  It asserted that the United States government only pursued such an antagonism as a way of feeding the military industrial complex that enriched its elites and the politicians [...]

A pro-Palestine activist organization filed a legal challenge on Monday against the passage of controversial laws permitting police to restrict protest near places of worship in New South Wales, Australia. The Sydney-based Palestine Action Group announced in a media release that it is filing a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against [...]

A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration Monday to explain the deportation of more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 despite a court order not to do so. According to CNN, US District Judge James Boasberg stated during a hearing that he wanted “the government to submit by [...]

US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff entered the offices of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday with the help of DC police after the former acting president, George Moose, refused to vacate the premises, according to US media. National Defense University president Peter Garvin, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of [...]

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s actions to deport Palestinian activists. The lawsuit seeks a nationwide injunction against executive orders that violate scholars’ freedom of speech. The ADC filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York against [...]

The New York Times reported Monday that the United States is withdrawing from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA). “The US authorities have informed me that they will conclude their involvement in the ICPA by the end of March,” Michael Schmid, president of the European Union Agency for [...]

Amnesty International urged Mozambican authorities on Monday to disclose the results of any investigation conducted in the case of Inocêncio Manhique, a protester who the group said suffered from unlawful use of force during a peaceful protest. Manhique was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet by the police during a peaceful protest two [...]

US President Donald J. Trump claimed in a Truth social media post Monday that former President Joseph Biden’s pardons are void because they were made via autopen. Trump stated: Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, [...]