After gathering in Interlaken, Switzerland last week, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Monday announced the release of its Sixth Assessment Report, analyzing the current state of climate change knowledge, the impact of climate change and possible abatements. The report outlines a multitude of response efforts and abatement measures. The studies first recommend [...]

The US Department of State Monday released its annual report on human rights, addressing what it considers significant issues with and abuses of human rights in India. Included in these issues and abuses are unlawful and arbitrary killings, torture and degrading treatment by police and prison officials, harsh and severe prison conditions, restrictions on freedom [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday called for Pakistani authorities to “refrain from the unlawful use of force” against protestors in support of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. At the same time, HRW called for all of those responsible for unlawful violence to be held accountable. Violent clashes between protestors and police have been ongoing [...]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday stated that all parties involved in the conflict in Ethiopia committed war crimes. Blinken said the US Department of State found that the Amhara forces, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), Ethiopia National Defense Forces (ENDF), and Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) engaged in crimes [...]

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Monday asserting that current state law prohibits gender transition “interventions” for minors without meeting specific procedural requirements. Missouri law prohibits “experimental healthcare procedures,” so the AG stated that current law does not allow gender transition care for minors without certain requirements because it is an experimental [...]

US President Joe Biden Monday issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting legislation seeking to overturn a Department of Labor (DOL) rule which allows retirement fund managers to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments. Biden argued that the rule should remain, and with his veto it effectively does–unless the legislature [...]

The Idaho legislature Monday passed House Bill 186 which will allow firing squads as a method of execution, making death by firing squad the standard execution procedure if lethal injections are found to be unconstitutional. The bill also gives the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) the authority to set the procedures for firing squad executions. [...]

The Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) Monday stated that a member of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had been arrested and charged for war crimes committed in Afghanistan. The man was not identified by the joint media release, however, he was later identified as Oliver Schulz by the ABC [...]

John Pesutto, leader of the Liberal Party in the Australian state of Victoria, said Monday that MP Moira Deeming’s presence at an anti-trans rally with neo-Nazi ties on Saturday is grounds for expulsion from the party. Pesutto told ABC radio that “Deeming not only attended this protest on the steps of Parliament, but was actively [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the federal government of Somalia Mondat released a report highlighting the frightening consequences of drought in Somalia. Compared to 2017 and 2018, the report states that famine-related deaths increased to at least 43,000 in 2022. The organization also decried the region’s lack of humanitarian aid. According to aid [...]