Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that the US entered into bilateral agreements with at least seven African countries to provide healthcare resources in exchange for access to surveillance data and pathogen specimens. The Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Liberia were signed in 2025 as part of [...]

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and Policing-Free Schools Canada sent a letter to the British Columbia Ministers of Education and Child Care, and Public Safety and Solicitor General, calling for an end all police-in-school programming in the province.  According to BCCLA Policy Director Meghan McDermott: Police presence in schools is counter-productive to maintaining [...]

The upper house of the Canadian parliament passed Bill S-228 on Monday to amend the Criminal Code (the Code) to explicitly criminalize forced and coerced sterilization. Specifically, the bill amends § 268(1) of the Code and prohibits the performance of a sterilization procedure without a patient’s voluntary consent as an act that wounds or maims [...]

The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution grants citizenship to nearly all children born in the United States, regardless of whether their parents are citizens, permanent residents, unauthorized migrants, or transient visitors. Limited exceptions exist, such as children born to accredited foreign diplomats, who are not subject to US jurisdiction. This [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations sent a joint letter to the EU Monday raising concerns over Egypt’s lack of progress on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. As part of the elevation of the EU-Egypt relationship to a Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership in [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday suspended its chief prosecutor Karim Khan following allegations of sexual misconduct. The unprecedented move places Khan’s future in the hands of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which will convene a special session to determine whether he remains in office. The allegations, first reported in 2024 to the [...]

The UN climate chief, Simon Stiell, called on countries Monday to take urgent steps to implement their commitments to mitigate climate change and accelerate the energy transition. His comments came during the opening of the UN Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany. In his speech, Stiell emphasized that the climate crisis is the most urgent challenge [...]

Riigikohus, the Estonian Supreme Court, in an 11-6 decision on Monday refused to declare as unconstitutional a set of amendments to the Churches and Congregations Act (the Act) that would have restricted domestic religious organizations from associating with a foreign religious organization or spiritual leader. The Court rejected Estonia President Alar Karis’s assertions that the [...]

The Hong Kong Legislative Council’s panels on Security, and Administration of Justice and Legal Services (the Panels) on Monday proposed a new “subsidiary legislation” under Article 23 of Hong Kong Basic Law, empowering the chief executive to certify “other offences endangering national security under the law of  the HKSAR .” Specifically, the proposal paper states: [...]