Beginning in the new year, people in Switzerland will be able to legally change their gender with only a visit to the civil registry office. The Swiss parliament passed amendments in 2020 to the civil code and the civil status ordinance that would allow people to change their first name and their gender quickly and [...]

The Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Finance froze the assets of over 770 individuals and organizations Friday on the grounds that they were providing terrorist financing, according to a ruling published in Turkey’s official gazette—Resmî Gazete. Among the individuals sanctioned were 454 members of what the Turkish government calls FETO, the Fethullah Terrorist Organization or [...]

The Biden Administration scored a victory Friday in its ongoing battle to enforce a nationwide vaccine mandate for businesses when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a stay, allowing the rule to move forward. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) on November 5, requiring all businesses [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied a request for relief from health care workers in New York seeking to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. New York’s mandate requires all health care workers to be vaccinated, with only a single narrow exception for those who have a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine. There are no [...]

An unofficial UK-based tribunal Thursday concluded that China has carried out acts of genocide against the Uyghur people in its western province of Xinjiang. The Uyghur Tribunal is an independent people’s tribunal formed last year to investigate ongoing atrocities and allegations of genocide against the Uyghur, Kazakh, and other Turkic Muslim populations in western China. [...]

The Justice Department announced Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas and the Texas attorney general, challenging the state’s congressional and statehouse redistricting plans. The lawsuit notes that Texas is one of the most diverse states in the nation, in which non-Latino whites make up less than 40 percent of [...]

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted Monday of incitement and breaking COVID-19 rules by the military junta which has seized control of the country. Suu Kyi was arrested by members of the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar military, when it staged a coup on February 1 and has since been held in detention. The [...]

More than 60 civil society organizations Thursday called upon the United Nations to create an independent panel to investigate and report on violations of international law committed in Yemen. The groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, noted that until October of this year, the UN Human Rights Council’s Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) [...]

The head of the United Nations team investigating Islamic State crimes in Iraq Thursday delivered his report to the Security Council, accusing Islamic State (IS) actors of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by the Da’esh/Islamic State [...]

A federal district court in Missouri Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers in 10 states. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule on November 5 revising the requirements Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers have to meet in order to continue to [...]