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Part one of the series can be found here. Let us come up the rough side of the mountain. After writing “Embracing the Repression,” I was asked about how to make courage contagious. After mulling this over for some time, I have concluded that I do not know for certain. That said, courage has a [...]

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following terrorist attacks in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 28 civilians. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring these attacks, threatening several countermeasures. India has suspended the Indus Water Treaty, and in response, Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian international flights. It is feared that India might strike Pakistan with [...]

A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction in favor of teacher groups, blocking the Department of Education’s (DOE) attempt to withhold federal funding from schools that implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This represents a legal setback to the Trump administration’s effort to end DEI. Judge Landya McCafferty concluded [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday that France failed to offer effective protection to three minors when they filed rape complaints. The ECtHR highlighted serious shortcomings in how the investigating authorities and domestic courts handled the minors’ cases. The court found that the previous courts failed to assess the full context [...]

US North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a state bill on Tuesday that would have restricted books with “explicit sexual material” displayed or made available to minors in the state, including in public and school libraries. In a two-page rebuke of the proposed legislation, Armstrong wrote that Senate Bill 2307 would represent “a misguided attempt [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case concerning the viability of religious opt-outs from LGBTQ+ curriculum in public schools. In the brief for the petitioners, the parents argue that “gender and sexuality are topics of enormous religious importance” and that “decisions related to these topics can have life-changing [...]

The Alabama House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday requiring K-12 public schools to display the Ten Commandments in common school areas and classrooms routinely used to teach US history. The bill states that displaying the Ten Commandments “with an appropriate context statement” is essential to educating students in “Civics, Government, History, Philosophy, Religion, [...]

The Tunisian government has made arbitrary detention a central instrument of state policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published Wednesday, alleging a systematic effort to quash dissent and stifle civil and political freedoms. According to the report, authorities have increasingly relied on vague anti-terrorism and conspiracy charges to jail critics, political opponents, [...]

The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomed on Friday the decision of the court to award victims €52.4 million in reparations for the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by an African rebel group in Uganda. According to the fund, the decision is final as it has been [...]

Nicaragua withdrew its application to intervene in the proceedings of South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday without citing any reason behind its decision. The initial application was made under Article 36, paragraph 1 and Article 62 of the Statute of the Court. The case, which was related to [...]