California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday allowing the state to manufacture its own generic prescription drugs in order to lower the cost of prescription drugs. The law, California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020, will require California’s Health and Human Services Agency (CHHSA) to partner with drug manufactures to produce and/or distribute [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered preliminary injunctions Sunday and Monday against the US Postal Service (USPS) to prevent policy changes that have delayed national mail delivery. Following a similar ruling by a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday, the injunction by Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, DC, marks the [...]

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, along with 70 lawmakers, proposed new legislation Monday that would require individuals and organizations to register as “foreign agents” if they receive money from outside of Nicaragua. Critics of the proposed law on regulation of foreign agents say that this is an attempt by Ortega to control the media and prevent [...]

Armenia lodged a request with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Monday seeking interim measures against Azerbaijan following military clashes over the weekend. The request sets out three specific interim measures. Armenia is requesting that the ECHR direct Azerbaijan: to cease the military attacks towards the civilian settlements along the entire line of contact [...]

Judge Gerald McHugh of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction Monday, enjoining the US Postal Service (USPS) from making service restrictions ahead of the November election. Because of COVID-19, many states have sought to facilitate mail-in voting. A record number of voters are expected to vote by [...]

Human rights organization Amnesty International announced Tuesday that it is ceasing its work in India due to the complete freeze of Amnesty International India’s bank accounts by the Indian government. On September 10 the organization was alerted that all of its bank accounts were frozen by the Ministry of Finance’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) because of [...]

Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to block a ruling from the state’s Supreme Court allowing mail-in ballots received three days after November 3 to be counted if they are postmarked on that day. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit in June challenging several aspects of the state’s [...]

Several UN Special Rapporteurs and members of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention collectively pressed Nigeria Monday to halt the execution and overturn the death sentence for blasphemy for 22-year-old gospel singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu. The experts, Karima Bennoune, Ahmed Shaheed, Leigh Toomey, Elina Steinerte, José Guevara Bermúdez, Seong-Phil Hong, Sètondji Adjovi, Agnes Callamard, Irene Khan [...]

Swiss voters upheld an accord with the EU that allows people to travel freely through Switzerland in a referendum on Sunday. While 62 percent voted in favor of keeping the accord, 38 percent voted to end it. The referendum on the accord was proposed by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP). A conservative group, the SVP [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced charges Monday against a former Amazon.com, Inc. finance manager along with two of her family members, alleging a multi-year insider trading scheme “in advance of Amazon earnings announcements between January 2016 and July 2018.” The SEC’s complaint, filed in the district court in Seattle, asserts that Laksha [...]