A Fiji court Tuesday issued an order to seize a Russian-owned superyacht after an application was made to register a US warrant to seize the vessel. The Amadea arrived in the island nation three weeks ago and was impounded by police following a filing in the High Court of Fiji by Christopher Pryde, director of [...]
Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp Thursday signed a slew of educational bills into law, including controversial legislation to ban “divisive concepts” from classrooms. House Bill 1084, known as the “Protect Students First Act,” defines “divisive concepts” as including such things as teaching that one race is inherently superior to another, that the United States is [...]
The Canadian government Thursday announced that it is lifting the three-month blood donor deferral period for men who are sexually active with other men. Under the current blood donation regulations, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) have to wait for a three-month period since their last sexual contact with another [...]
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) Wednesday released a report on its investigation into patterns or practices of race discrimination by the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The investigation was begun on June 1, 2020, less than a week after an MPD officer murdered George Floyd. Floyd’s murder sparked widespread [...]
A new report released Tuesday warns that press freedom in Hong Kong has been almost entirely curtailed by a government crackdown, creating a space for pro-Beijing, pro-government media. The report, from UK-based advocacy group Hong Kong Watch, is based on interviews with journalists currently in exile and reports by Hong Kong press associations. The crackdown, [...]
A group of individual voters and community-based groups filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional district map. The organizations Black Voters Matter, Equal Ground, the League of Women Voters of Florida, and Florida Rising, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, joined with 12 individual plaintiffs in filing the lawsuit. The complaint noted that Florida [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Friday said that there is growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, with accusations leveled against both sides in the conflict. Michelle Bachelet said that since the beginning of the war nearly eight weeks ago, “International humanitarian law has not merely been ignored but seemingly tossed aside.” The Human [...]
The White House Tuesday finalized a regulation restoring three elements of a key environmental protection law that had been altered during the Trump Administration. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) reinstated longstanding provisions to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that were modified in 2020. According to CEQ, the modifications caused challenges to agencies attempting [...]
Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate lawsuits Thursday to block a Kentucky law that effectively bans abortion in the state. The organizations filed their lawsuits a day after the Republican-led state legislature overrode Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 3. Because of the numerous requirements enacted by the bill, [...]
ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology Wednesday for its predecessors’ involvement in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The bank worked with the International Institute of Social History to investigate the histories of two of the bank’s predecessors, Hope & Co. and Mees & Zoonen. Researchers with the [...]
