The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack held its eighth and final hearing Thursday for the summer where it focused on former President Donald Trump’s inaction during the 2021 US Capitol attack. The committee proceedings highlighted the fact that Trump failed to intervene to stop the riot until two hours after it [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 228-195 to pass HR 8373, the Right to Contraception Act on Thursday. The vote was largely partisan, with only eight Republicans voting in favor of the bill. The bill protects “a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception” as well as the ability of health care [...]

The US State Department Tuesday released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report which held China and 10 other countries responsible for enabling the practice of human trafficking within their borders. The report surveys and evaluates the trafficking prevention efforts of 188 countries, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken estimated that 25 million people remain [...]

One of the three men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X is seeking USD 40 million in compensatory damages from the City of New York after he was proven innocent of involvement in the killing last year. Muhammad Aziz was arrested on February 26, 1965 at the age of 26 for killing the civil rights [...]

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against women (CDAW) Thursday found Spain responsible for “obstetric violence” after a woman who went to a public hospital was subjected to a caesarian section without her consent. In 2012, an unnamed Spanish national presented herself at a public hospital in Donostia, Spain while 38 weeks pregnant. [...]

Louisiana Judge Donald Johnson Tuesday granted a petition filed by reproductive health providers against the state’s abortion ban, the latest in a back-and-forth case set in motion after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. Johnson granted a temporary restraining order against state laws designed to take effect after Roe v. Wade was [...]

The US Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) Office of Civil Rights Wednesday issued a legal guidance warning the country’s 60,000 retail pharmacies that refusing to fill prescriptions for medication that can be used for abortion violates federal civil rights law. The guidance clarifies that under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: As [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Thursday ruled that the state of Maine cannot restrict who can gather signatures in ballot initiatives for state elections, in a voting case that turned to focus on freedom of political speech. The court ruled that a Maine law limiting those eligible to gather signatures for [...]

The European Parliament Thursday voted 324-155 to adopt a resolution making the right to an abortion a fundamental human right. The proposed statement would add the words “veryone has a right to safe and legal abortion” to Article VII of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, adopted in 2009. Parliament also urged [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona over an election law that requires state residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in presidential and other federal elections. House Bill 2492 was signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in March. The law obliges those voting [...]