The Republican-led US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi. The full Senate will vote on her confirmation as early as this week. Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) opened the meeting by highlighting Bondi’s experience as a prosecutor and her two terms as Florida’s attorney general. [...]

Monica Costa Riba, Amnesty International’s senior campaigner for women’s rights, condemned on Thursday the verdict in the case of Justyna Vydrinska, a human rights activist convicted of helping a woman access a safe abortion, stating that authorities should overturn the decision and halt the prosecution of legitimate activists. Justyna Wydrzyńska, one of the founders of [...]

Two unions representing US government workers filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump’s efforts to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers, making it easier to fire them. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), both federated unions under the AFL-CIO, represent more than 2 [...]

US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the secretary of Defense and secretary of Homeland Security to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity. Trump ordered the expansion of the center to “provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United [...]

President Donald Trump’s new executive actions on immigration could have far-reaching implications across the Americas and put asylum seekers at risk, human rights organization Amnesty International warned on Wednesday. Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, criticized the US policies, arguing that they fabricate non-existent threats and expand militarization at the expense of human dignity. [...]

The British Palestine Committee is accusing the UK of failure to uphold international law through its continued military support to Israel in a report published Wednesday. The report criticized what it calls British “military collaboration with Israel,” highlighting the UK’s complicity in Israel’s human rights violations. The British Military Collaboration Report outlined that the UK [...]

In a statement issued Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Ethiopian authorities for shutting down two prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks, deepening an ongoing crackdown against civil society. An Ethiopian government body overseeing civil society ordered a halt to the operations of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center in [...]

India’s Supreme Court strongly criticized the Allahabad High Court on Monday for failing to grant bail in a case involving charges of forced religious conversion. The Supreme Court questioned the High Court’s reluctance to exercise its discretion in granting bail to Maulvi Syed Shad Kazmi, who was accused of unlawfully converting a mentally challenged minor [...]

The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday to approved a new administrative rule proposed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters that would require parents to disclose their children’s immigration status when enrolling them in school. The rule states that when parents or legal guardians enroll their children in school, they must “provide proof of United States citizenship at the time [...]

The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission (officially European Commission for Democracy through Law) has published an urgent report on the conditions and legal standards whereby constitutional courts can invalidate elections following a controversial ruling of the Romanian Constitutional Court. The report, published Monday, was in response to a request from Theodoros Rousopoulos, president of the [...]