The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling on Venezuela to accept humanitarian assistance and requesting a comprehensive report on the country’s human rights situation. The Council called on the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to accept assistance “in order to address the scarcity of food, medicine and medical [...]

The Scottish Court of Session , Scotland’s Supreme Court for civil matters, said Friday that a question of Britain’s ability to revoke the Brexit plan upon its inability to agree posed by anti-Brexit advocates is one for the EU. Article 50 of the Treaty on EU provides the protocol for how a member state may [...]

The Eastern High Court of appeals in Denmark on Friday upheld a decision that a Rwandan native and Danish national since 2014 can be extradited to face trial for crimes against humanity. Wenceslas Twagirayezu is suspected of committing crimes against humanity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Twagirayezu was arrested in May 2017 . In a [...]

Judge Amy Totenberg of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled Monday that Georgia will be permitted to go forward with the use of its electronic voting machines, despite security warnings from voting technology experts. The ruling comes in a 2017 lawsuit filed by Georgia voters and election security organizations who [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced major policy updates and enforcement efforts on electronic cigarettes such as JUUL and their distribution and sale to teens—what the statement called the “largest coordinated enforcement effort in the FDA’s history.” The FDA announced the issuing of more than 1300 warning letters and civil penalties/fines [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held Wednesday that power company Dominion Energy did not violate the Clean Water Act through its process of keeping a by-product of coal energy production called coal ash on site in a landfill and in settling ponds. The Sierra Club sued Dominion [...]

Friday, the final day of a four-day public confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was filled with witnesses including legal scholars, practiced attorneys, policymakers, advocacy specialists, organization representatives, among others—both in support of and in opposition to Kavanaugh’s confirmation—speaking in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of Senate majority Republicans [...]

A jury failed to reach a verdict Wednesday in the retrial of former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten, ending weeks of deliberation in a mistrial. “We have reexamined our views and continued our discussions about the evidence and determined that individually we cannot ‘surrender honest conviction as to the weight or effect of evidence solely [...]

A joint statement by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) said Wednesday that rolling back international human rights norms in regards to women’s access to health care, services and information is threatening the sexual and reproductive health rights of [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday allowed a now 13-year-old gender discrimination lawsuit against Goldman Sachs to proceed with class action status. More than 2,000 current and former female Goldman Sachs employees secured class action status in March, which the bank immediately sought to appeal. The complaint [...]