In a report released Thursday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged Venezuela to take immediate steps to address “grave violations of economic, social, civil, political and cultural rights” in the country. The report warns that if the situation does not improve, an unprecedented outflow of Venezuelan migrants and refugees will continue [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the CROWN Act on Wednesday making California the first state in the US where it is illegal for employers and schools to discriminate on the basis of hairstyle. The CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act was proposed by California legislators and written by state senator [...]

Judge Alison Nathan of the Southern District of New York ruled on Wednesday that a case against nearly a dozen companies accused of defrauding student loan borrowers could proceed, rejecting a motion for the suit to be dismissed filed by the companies’ attorneys. The suit, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, claimed that [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision on Wednesday that prevents the Trump administration from using funding that Congress had earmarked for the military to begin building a wall along the US-Mexico border. The injunction will remain in place while the case is on appeal or until a higher [...]

The UN Security Council released a statement on Friday that condemned the recent airstrike on a migrant detention center near Tripoli, Libya, which left 53 dead and 130 injured, and called for an immediate ceasefire and return to UN political mediation. The government blames the attack on the Libyan National Army and its leader Khalifa [...]

Judge Michael Barrett of the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio signed an order on Wednesday that blocks Ohio from enforcing a new law that would have banned most abortions beginning as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. Senate Bill 23 was signed into law by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine in [...]

The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday requested authorization to conduct a formal investigation into alleged crimes against ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The request marks the end of the OTP’s preliminary examination, which was opened in September 2018 following the court’s review of communications from alleged [...]

Officials in India’s Supreme Court registry said on Wednesday that the court would make its judgments available in regional languages on its official website by the end of July. Initially, court decisions will be translated into Assamese, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, and Telugu. The move aims to satisfy a long-standing demand of non-English speakers in the [...]

Hungary’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will significantly increase state control over the research, funds, and membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. More than two-thirds of the legislative body’s members voted in favor of the measure that will see fifteen scientific research institutes put under the direct control of the bill’s newly [...]

A fedearl judge ruled Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security cannot hold migrants seeking asylum indefinitely as was previously ordered by Attorney General William Barr. Judge Marsha Pechman of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington held that section 235(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which prohibits releasing on [...]