The UK Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court decision Tuesday rejecting gender neutral markers on passports. Christie Elan-Cane argued for a policy to allow gender neutrality on passports in 2018. Elan-Cane wanted passports to have an “X” category for people who do not identify fully with either male or female. Elan-Cane argued the current [...]

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti introduced a bill to the Canadian House of Commons on Monday to criminalize sexual orientation conversion therapy programs. The bill would amend the Criminal Code to criminalize conversion therapy for all minors, including removing a child from Canada with the intention of subjecting the child [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Monday against two Chinese nationals on charges for laundering over $100 million from a cryptocurrency exchange hack by North Korean hackers in 2018. The two nationals, Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong, were indicted on counts of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. “These defendants [...]

The US House of Representatives approved the Emmett Till Antilynching Act by a 410-4 majority Wednesday, aiming to make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American Chicago boy who was kidnapped and lynched while visiting family in Mississippi in 1955 after allegedly flirting with a white woman. [...]

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court held that a child’s habitual residence depends on a totality of circumstances specific to the case, not on categorical requirements such as an actual agreement between parents. This decision follows the International Child Abduction Remedies Act implemented by  The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague [...]