US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to expand operations at the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity. Trump ordered the expansion of the center to “provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in [...]

President Donald Trump’s new executive actions on immigration could have far-reaching implications across the Americas and put asylum seekers at risk, human rights organization Amnesty International warned on Wednesday. Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, criticized the US policies, arguing that they fabricate non-existent threats and expand militarization at the expense of human dignity. [...]

The British Palestine Committee is accusing the UK of failure to uphold international law through its continued military support to Israel in a report published Wednesday. The report criticized what it calls British “military collaboration with Israel,” highlighting the UK’s complicity in Israel’s human rights violations. The British Military Collaboration Report outlined that the UK [...]

In a statement issued Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Ethiopian authorities for shutting down two prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks, deepening an ongoing crackdown against civil society. An Ethiopian government body overseeing civil society ordered a halt to the operations of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center in [...]

India’s Supreme Court strongly criticized the Allahabad High Court on Monday for failing to grant bail in a case involving charges of forced religious conversion. The Supreme Court questioned the High Court’s reluctance to exercise its discretion in granting bail to Maulvi Syed Shad Kazmi, who was accused of unlawfully converting a mentally challenged minor [...]

The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday to approved a new administrative rule proposed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters that would require parents to disclose their children’s immigration status when enrolling them in school. The rule states that when parents or legal guardians enroll their children in school, they must “provide proof of United States citizenship at the time [...]

The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission (officially European Commission for Democracy through Law) has published an urgent report on the conditions and legal standards whereby constitutional courts can invalidate elections following a controversial ruling of the Romanian Constitutional Court. The report, published Monday, was in response to a request from Theodoros Rousopoulos, president of the [...]

The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a directive to freeze funding across federal agencies just one day after announcing the sweeping measure, which had left agencies and beneficiaries scrambling to determine its impact. However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that only the memo issuing the freeze was being rescinded, [...]

Mississippi state and the US federal government have neglected to protect Black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial [...]