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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting medical interventions related to gender transition. The lawsuit accuses Dr. May Lau of engaging in “deceptive trade practices, including misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying [...]

The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily halted the execution of Robert Roberson, who was scheduled to be put to death that evening for the 2002 death of his two-year-old daughter. The court’s ruling comes in response to an unprecedented move by the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, which had subpoenaed Roberson to testify [...]

In the grand halls of the United Nations, where the fate of nations is debated, an increasingly urgent conversation is taking place. It’s a discussion about the very foundation of global security governance – the UN Security Council (UNSC). Calls for reform have been presented in academic circles, yet in the past few years, such [...]

A Georgia grand jury on Thursday charged a father and son for a school shooting that killed two students and two teachers. The grand jury, a group of civilians tasked by the court with determining whether the evidence supports a criminal charge, found probable cause against both the father, Colin Gray, and the son and [...]

More than three years since the military takeover by Taliban in 2021, Afghanistan remains engulfed in a severe human rights crisis. Extrajudicial killings, public executions, flogging in stadiums, and other forms of corporal punishment, arbitrary detentions, torture and disappearances of former government officials, members of the national security forces, judges, lawyers, human rights defenders, journalists, [...]

An audit by the state of New York released Tuesday found the state’s Division of Human Rights (DHR) failed to investigate numerous housing discrimination complaints. The audit stated that the failure to investigate was due to “poor management” at the agency, with complaints regularly lost or left unprocessed. Key findings of the audit showed DHR [...]

At the intersection of medicine and criminal justice, few diagnoses have stirred as much controversy as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). Once considered a clear-cut indication of child abuse, this diagnosis has become a battleground of conflicting expert testimonies, challenged convictions, and evolving scientific understanding. As courts grapple with cases involving SBS, the stakes couldn’t be [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Tuesday that Russia violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The violation concerned the case of Salikh Nabiyevich Gadzhiyev and Nikolay Gostev, who were dismissed from their respective positions as policeman and Metro worker, after voicing concerns about practices in their work sectors. Article [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Tanzanian government Wednesday to address increasing human rights violations ahead of local elections in mainland Tanzania scheduled for November 27. The country has recently witnessed several instances of arbitrary arrests of opposition supporters, and the extrajudicial killing of at least eight government critics. HRW denounced the government for [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered its judgement Tuesday in the case of Daugaard Sorensen v. Denmark, which centered on the dismissal of charges against the applicant’s alleged rapist due to administrative errors by the Danish Regional State Prosecutor’s Office. The case involves applicant Emma Daugaard Sorensen, who reported a rape to the [...]