The US Court of Appeals for the First District on Friday denied the Trump administration’s appeal of a US District Court ruling that blocked the president’s proclamation of a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. The three-judge panel found that the administration was unlikely to succeed on appeal. H-1B visas are employer-sponsored non-immigrant visas issued [...]

On Thursday, Amnesty International warned that South Korea’s abortion framework did not go far enough to protect women’s reproductive health and rights. Amnesty International’s call for improved protections for women came in response to an appellate decision by the Seoul High Court that acquitted a 26-year-old woman who had been charged with murder, overturning an [...]

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, retained by the family of Corey Ruiz, said in a statement Thursday that the Wisconsin police officer who fatally shot Ruiz should face criminal charges. Crump characterized the killing as an unjustified use of excessive force, saying Ruiz “was tased, taken to the ground, and then he was shot multiple [...]

The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted Friday to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan from office over sexual misconduct allegations from 2024. Khan’s lawyer, Tayab Ali, denounced the vote in a statement. He said that the investigation found no misconduct, including sexual misconduct, against Khan. Ali’s statement also claimed that [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday denounced recent threats to attack infrastructure made by both the United States and Iran, amidst heightened hostilities between the two nations and the breakdown of their ceasefire. HRW condemned the threats and warned that the targets of the threats could be civilian infrastructure. HRW urged the international community to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday decried the intensified wave of settler violence in the West Bank and called on the international community to take action. According to HRW, which conducted interviews and reviewed recordings of the incident, “40 to 50 settlers, including children, approached Tal from the east” and attacked several homes on July [...]

The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday  released a mid-year crime trends report which illustrated that homicides in large US cities fell by 18 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, effectively putting the country on track for its lowest annual homicide rate in over a century. [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Zambian authorities to drop all charges against journalist MacPherson Mukuka, and release him from detention following his arrest for posting a private conversation involving public servants on social media. Mukuka, a journalist with the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), was arrested on July 17 for recording a private conversation between [...]

A group of federal employees and their union on Thursday requested that a federal court temporarily bar Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins from sending official communications that “proselytize, promote, or favor any particular religion” to US Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees while their constitutional challenge proceeds. The motion for a preliminary injunction was filed in [...]