The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution, calling upon the Belarusian authorities to enter into a dialogue with the political opposition. The resolution expressed serious concern regarding the human rights violations committed in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath, including numerous acts of torture; enforced [...]

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Sunday marked its 30th anniversary since being signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. The ADA was enacted to protect against discrimination against people with disabilities in several areas including employment, education, health care, recreation, transportation, and housing. Over the last 30 years, there have been [...]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree Friday ordering Hagia Sophia to be used as a Mosque again. The Association for the Service of the Historical Foundations and the Environment filed a lawsuit with the Council of State in 2005 calling for Hagia Sophia to be converted back to a mosque from a museum, [...]

The Minneapolis City Council released on Friday a draft of the proposed changes to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. The draft of the proposed changes shows a plan to replace the police department with a Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention that would be responsible for “public safety services prioritizing a holistic, public health-oriented [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday revoked the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) that allowed for chloroquine phosphate (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) to be used to treat certain hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Under § 564 of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the authorization of a product for emergency use may [...]

The Missouri Administrative Commission ruled on Friday for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, allowing the state’s only abortion provider to renew its license. The Department of Health and Senior Services refused license renewal to Planned Parenthood due to, among other concerns, its substantial failure to conduct physician interviews, to file complication reports for [...]

Groups in Kentucky brought a federal lawsuit Thursday over Kentucky’s failure to adapt voting regulations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit was filed by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Covington & Burling, on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday blocked a lower court’s order that Ohio’s election officials must accept electronically-signed and witnessed petitions. Three individuals and two organizations, who are obtaining signatures in support of initiatives to amend the Ohio Constitution and propose municipal ordinances, allege that COVID-19 and the state’s stay-at-home [...]

The Hague Court ruled against anti-5G activists on Monday, allowing the Netherlands to roll out 5G nationwide. Stop5GNL, a foundation that aims to protect and promote the health of Dutch residents in general and in particular in connection with electromagnetic fields, sought to prohibit the Netherlands from promoting or enabling the roll-out of 5G at [...]

Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on Thursday reiterated that Palestine is a state for the purposes of transferring criminal jurisdiction over its territory to The Hague. According to Bensouda, under article 53(1) of the Rome Statute, the ICC has territorial jurisdiction over the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This territory consists [...]