A federal judge on Tuesday granted a motion that placed a temporary restraining order on President Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Susman Godfrey, halting the administration’s efforts to block the federal government from doing business with the firm. The court order came one day after Susman Godfrey filed to enjoin the executive action. In [...]

A US federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked an order issued by the Trump Administration that sought to revoke the legal status and work permits of nearly 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Issued March 25 by the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump order intended to shut down a program instated [...]

Kyrgyzstan detained the prominent Kyrgyz human rights defender, Rita Karasartova without formal charges on Monday. Amnesty International denounced the detention as an “alarming sign of deepening repression.” Human rights activist Gul’shaiyr Abdirasulova and local media reported that the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Chui region arrested and questioned Karasartova after conducting a search at her [...]

Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide scrambled to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. While Western democratic leaders at first placed faith in isolating known infections, many ultimately followed in the [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that the Netherlands violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for private and family life, in a case involving the long-term separation of a mother from her daughter following the mother’s loss of parental authority. The case [...]

Amnesty International condemned the authorities in Sudan and the international community on Tuesday for their inaction or involvement in exacerbating the country’ ongoing conflict, which began in 2023 and has resulted in devastating humanitarian consequences for the population. Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director for research and advocacy, stated: “The people of Sudan urgently need [...]

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged the European Union to demand that Bhutanese authorities release dozens of political prisoners held for decades. The rights groups said the detainees have been deprived of multiple fundamental rights and held in inhumane conditions. According to Amnesty, most of the detainees have been detained in connection [...]

The United Nation’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan deplored the increasing violence in Darfur region on Monday, as the war enters its third year. The Fact-Finding Mission called for an immediate ceasefire between both parties under respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Chair of the Fact-Finding Mission, Mohamed Chande, stated: The world has witnessed [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the EU on Monday to focus on the protection of Palestinians’ rights in light of the first EU-Palestine High-Level Political Dialogue of April 14. HRW claimed the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, and other Commissioners must address the repression, arbitrary arrests [...]