The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday that Tawila, in Sudan’s Darfur region, which hosts more than 700,000 displaced people, is currently experiencing severe shortages of food, water, and healthcare, calling for an urgent increase in resources and humanitarian funding. The WHO representative in Sudan, Dr Abdinasir Abubakr, said that Darfur recorded high [...]

Autonomous systems now write code, diagnose illness, drive vehicles, and trade securities with steadily diminishing human oversight. In the event of damage caused by robots, private law’s classical subjects of natural persons and legal entities are not a perfect match. This blog stems from the idea that while machines do not meet all the criteria [...]

The room is dark, and only a little light enters through the windows. A man stands in the middle of it. He is a dictator, and the fear that has taken hold of him is visible now in a way that the authority of his position has perhaps never allowed anyone to see. Outside, voices [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Denmark and Greenland to ensure accountability and the rights of Inuit women at the centre of their response to the decades-long imposition of contraception without consent in Greenland. The statement comes as Denmark and Greenland continue to address the forced contraception case, in which Greenlandic Inuit women and [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday extended a temporary restraining order (TRO) that calls on the White House to permit access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) and Politico, allowing the court more time to decide whether it will block President Donald Trump’s ban on the outlets during the pendency of their lawsuit. [...]

French riot police reportedly used tear gas and other non-lethal weapons, against protestors during street clashes on Tuesday, drawing strong condemnation from legal unions amid escalating student strikes across France. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has condemned the violence, which has seen students and staff injured, and defended the “proportional” response of police and law [...]

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) brought suit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to halt taxpayer-funded television advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, arguing that the spending violates federal restrictions on the use of appropriated funds for “publicity or propaganda” purposes. The complaint seeks judicial review under the Administrative Procedure [...]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday filed a motion in the Circuit Court for Florida’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, seeking an injunction to limit child access to social media, make safety information more accessible, improve the child sexual exploitation reporting process, and disable features encouraging excessive use among teens. Florida sued under the Florida Deceptive [...]

A Cornell Special Committee on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the university has hired Sally Yates to conduct an independent review into the adequacy of the school’s response to sexual assault allegations by a former student, identified only as Jane Doe. Yates, formerly the US deputy attorney general under Barack Obama and now a [...]

A group of former and current students of Lincoln University (LU)  of Missouri on Wednesday sued the state of Missouri, alleging that the state’s intentional withholding of funds continues to perpetuate a history of “racially segregated higher education.” The LU plaintiffs argue that the state has “appropriated less per student to Lincoln than to the [...]