The Chinese government has been engaging in a systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang province, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged in a report Monday. The report presents evidence of these violations, and is “primarily based on interviews with 58 former residents of Xinjiang, including 5 former detainees and 38 relatives of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Friday ordered 32 Florida counties to provide sample Spanish language ballots in order to help Spanish-speaking citizens vote in the upcoming election. The lawsuit was brought by a Puerto Rican citizen who moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria as well as [...]
The members of the Pacific Islands Forum on Wednesday signed a statement saying that “climate change presents the single greatest threat to the livelihood, security and wellbeing of Pacific people.” The Pacific Islands Forum was attended by representatives of 18 Pacific countries, and the communique was signed at the end of the forum. In the [...]
Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned the government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. A number of groups challenged the approval, including several First Nations and two cities, saying that the First Nations were not adequately consulted and that there was no meaningful dialogue about the project. The Federal Court of Appeal [...]
California lawmakers on Wednesday sent a bill to the governor that would raise the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21. The bill “would prohibit the sale or transfer of any firearm by a licensed dealer, except as specifically exempted, to any person under 21 years of age.” Under the bill, people [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urged in a report released Monday the investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military generals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Mission “found patterns of gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States that ‘undoubtedly amount to the gravest [...]
The Internet Association , along with a number of other trade groups, filed a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday urging the court to reinstate net neutrality rules. The brief was filed in support of the petitioners, one of which is Mozilla Corporation, who filed suit against the [...]
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit filed by residents of both Maryland and Arizona over the census citizenship question to proceed. The lawsuit arises out of an additional question to the 2020 census questionnaire that asks citizens “whether each household member is a citizen of the United States by birth or [...]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the National Marine Fisheries Service that seeks to protect the waters where Southern Resident killer whales live. Previously, the Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned for the protection of these waters, and the Fisheries Service has agreed that this was necessary. However, the Fisheries [...]
UN human rights experts urged the government of Nicaragua Thursday to stop repressing voices that are critical of the government after “100 days of unrest in which at least 317 people have been killed and 1,830 injured.” The experts stated that “eports indicate that there has been an increase in targeted repression, criminalisation and alleged arbitrary [...]
