UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries Wednesday sent a letter to Ofcom, the country’s communication services regulator, accusing Russian state-controlled television network RT of spreading disinformation and requesting that Ofcom take action if necessary. The letter came after Russia recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two rebel territories in eastern Ukraine. Dorries voiced alarm in [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral argument Wednesday in a dispute over whether a group of states, led by Arizona, can intervene to defend an immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration declined to do so. Under the “public charge” rule, also known as 8 USC § 1182(a)(4)(A), the government [...]

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) issued a set of guidelines Wednesday designed to prevent risk to users of crypto assets and related services. Titled the “Guidelines for Advertising of Virtual Digital Assets and Linked Services,” the guidelines prefer the term “Virtual Digital Assets” (VDAs) over crypto assets. They define a VDA as any [...]

Uganda’s Parliamentary Health Committee stated Tuesday that it is considering proposed legislation that will impose fines on those who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and possibly jail terms for those who fail to pay. A statement released on the parliament’s website states that the “Parliament’s Committee on Health has started the consideration of the [...]

Alabama House lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would prohibit transgender students from using gender-segregated facilities, such as restrooms and locker rooms, that align with their gender identity. The bill was approved with a vote of 74-24 after two hours of debate. Under the bill, K-12 schools would require students to use gender-segregated facilities that [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies Tuesday to investigate medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse.” Abbott’s directive follows a Friday opinion by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which found that “each of the ‘sex change’ procedures and treatments enumerated above, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse under several [...]

The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of a federal hate crime on Tuesday. A jury determined that the men were motivated by racism when they chased down and killed Arbery, an unarmed Black man, in February 2020. Father and son duo Gregor and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor [...]

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has decriminalized abortion up to 24 weeks, continuing a trend that has been spreading across traditionally conservative Catholic Latin American countries. The court had considered two cases over the past several months. One was brought by lawyer Andrés Mateo Sánchez Molina, and the other was brought by Causa Justa, a coalition of [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, Tuesday issued a report to the Human Rights Council identifying states who have supplied weapons to the Myanmar junta, which have been used against civilians since the military coup last year. The report documents the transfer of weapons to the Myanmar [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday ruled that searches conducted by Russian authorities in flats and prayer halls of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses more than ten years ago violated their fundamental rights to freedom of religion and liberty. The court jointly examined six cases against Russia wherein the applicants were individual Jehovah’s Witnesses and [...]