Former US House Representative Matt Gaetz (FL) withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Tuesday in the face of considerable Republican opposition in the Senate and a lurking report from a House Ethics Committee investigation into sex trafficking allegations. Citing meetings with members of the Senate and the uphill battle the nomination faced, [...]

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, restricted the use of gendered bathrooms in the House to biological members of each sex on Wednesday. The measure has triggered anger among legislators and advocates and has once again brought the issues of transgender rights and their inclusion in society to the agenda of [...]

Russia’s upper house of parliament approved two laws on Wednesday that will prohibit the visibility of LGBTQ+ people in media and ban citizens of countries that allow gender transitioning from adopting Russian children. The first law amends Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation to prohibit “propaganda of non-traditional sexual [...]

Indian human rights organizations urged the government of India to end the prolonged imprisonment of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez on Wednesday. Khurram has been held in custody for three years on charges of terrorism and related offenses, which many believe are unfounded and politically motivated. Khurram is the coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir [...]

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Tuesday in a letter to Justice Juan Merchan that his office has agreed to postpone US President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in the hush money case, allowing time to address Trump’s anticipated motion to dismiss his conviction. This highlights the unprecedented nature of prosecuting a president-elect and the complexities of [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and possibly-deceased Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The court charged Netanyahu and Gallant with using starvation as a method of warfare and accused them of criminal responsibility [...]

A prominent Ugandan opposition figure Dr Kizza Besigye, who disappeared Saturday while visiting Kenya, resurfaced on Wednesday in a military jail back in Uganda, according to statements from his wife and James Orengo, governor of Siaya, Kenya. The opposition figure’s disappearance sparked a response from Amnesty International. The group discussed the growing and worrying trend [...]

Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their new government efficiency panel will identify “thousands” of regulations made by “unelected bureaucrats” for President-elect Donald Trump to eliminate. Trump appointed Musk and Ramaswamy to lead the newly-announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (ironically designated by the acronym DOGE, evoking Musk’s meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin) last [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleges Saudi Arabia’s primary sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), of aiding in human rights abuses within and outside of the country, in a Tuesday report. Highlighted within the report are the direct expropriation of Saudi companies used towards achieving political ends and human rights abuses, corruption within the [...]

Amnesty International called on Singaporean authorities to establish a moratorium on all executions on Wednesday. The statement comes ahead of the scheduled execution of a man with disabilities for drug trafficking, which the organization claims violates international law and standards. Rosman bin Abdullah was found guilty of trafficking 57.43g of heroin and is scheduled to [...]