The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called Friday for the immediate release of Cuban protesters and journalists who are being held by authorities in the aftermath of some of the largest protests Cuba has seen in decades. On July 11, thousands of Cuban citizens took to the streets to express their [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged the Human Rights Council and UN nations on Tuesday to take swift action to aid the deteriorating situation in Myanmar. Speaking at the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Bachelet said that the situation in Myanmar “has evolved from a political crisis to a multi-dimensional [...]

A US federal judge threw out two antitrust complaints against the social media giant Facebook on Monday in a major loss for federal and state attorneys. The cases were filed concurrently, one by the attorneys general for 48 states and the other by the Federal Trade Commission, and were seeking to break up what they [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 3979 into law Wednesday, banning Texas public schools from being able to teach students critical race theory. Critical race theory is a social theory that asserts that racial issues in society are influenced, created, and maintained by societal structures and cultural assumptions. It focuses on the intersections between gender, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Monday that Republican members of the North Carolina General Assembly are not allowed to intervene in a voter identification lawsuit on behalf of the state of North Carolina. The lawsuit, North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. Berger, focuses on voter ID requirements and [...]

Three current and former deputies of the Harris County, Texas, Constable’s Office, Precinct-1 filed a lawsuit Monday against their supervising officers alleging civil rights claims of sexual harassment, sexual battery, and retaliation, as well as loss of bodily integrity. The complaint alleges that Constable Alan Rosen, Assistant Chief Chris Gore, and Lieutenant Shane Rigdon sexually [...]

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that they will be joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization. James’ office had been conducting a civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings since 2019. The investigation began shortly after Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, [...]

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) announced Monday that they have filed a complaint against Tridonex, a Mexican auto parts factory and subsidiary of the Philadelphia-based Cardone Industries, located in the city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas, Mexico. The AFL-CIO is joined in the suit by the Service Employees International Union [...]

French lead prosecutor Remy Heitz said Monday that the investigations carried out by the French government could not prove direct involvement of French troops in the Rwandan genocide and asked the investigating magistrates to drop the case. The investigation centers on the 991-page report that was published by the Research Commission on the French Archives [...]

The US Supreme Court dismissed Bognet v. Degraffenreid, the final challenge to the 2020 presidential election from Pennsylvania, on Monday. In September the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted extraordinary relief in Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar by extending the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots from 8 PM on Election Day (Tuesday, November 3) to 5 PM [...]