Aaron Carr, the director of the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI), announced a mass civil rights complaint against 203 real estate companies in California for illegally discriminating against Section 8 renters. Section 8 renters refer to those eligible for rent subsidy under the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Vouchers program. The [...]
The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, filed an urgent appeal on Monday to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite. The appeal addresses the independence of jurists under the constitutional amendments proposed by the current Pakistani government. Imran Khan’s appeal to the UN regards the government’s plan to amend [...]
The Supreme Court of Georgia temporarily re-instated an abortion ban while it considers whether the abortion law is unconstitutional. The new law, which took effect at 5 PM October 7, bans abortion following the sixth week of pregnancy when a fetus has a detectable heartbeat. The law, known as HB 481, or the Georgia LIFE [...]
A community landcare group in Victoria’s northwest has initiated legal action against what it claims is an “unlawful” environmental project in Australia’s southeastern Murray-Darling Basin. The Friends of Nyah Vinifera Park, chaired by Dr. Jacquie Kelly, filed the proceedings challenging the approval of the Nyah floodplain restoration project, part of the Victorian Murray Floodplain Restoration [...]
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report on Monday, revealing that Asian crime syndicates have increasingly integrated service-based business models and advanced technologies — including malware, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and deepfakes — into their operations alongside the establishment of new underground markets and cryptocurrency solutions for money laundering. The [...]
Switzerland-based assisted suicide organization The Last Resort said Sunday that it has suspended applications amid a criminal investigation into the use of a suicide “capsule.” Swiss authorities detained the president of The Last Resort, Dr. Florian Willet, following the death of a 64-year-old woman from the US in late September, according to a statement from [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging St. James Parish’s land-use policies have discriminated against majority-Black neighborhoods, resulting in pollution and other harms. St. James Parish, located outside New Orleans, is accused of implementing a 2014 land-use plan that “effectively codified” racist [...]
Former Singaporean transport minister S. Iswaran began his 12-month jail term on Monday after surrendering at the State Courts. Iswaran faced 35 charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) and section 165 of the Penal Code in a corruption case involving two prominent businessmen. However, during last month’s trial, the prosecutor amended the corruption [...]
Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the presidency. Dissanayake, representing the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition, defeated candidates from the long-dominant United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom [...]
The Government of Canada announced Sunday new funding to support Indigenous-led climate solutions in remote communities, helping them adapt to the impacts of climate change. The funding upholds the right to a healthy environment and contributes to the obligations of the the government and private sector under the Calls to Action of the Truth and [...]
