A South African judge ruled Wednesday that the detention of Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang on charges of USD $2 billion in loan fraud was legal under the extradition treaty between the US and South Africa. Manuel Chang, who was Mozambique’s finance minister between 2005 and 2015, was indicted by the Department of Justice [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Saturday urged the government of Nicaragua to stop intimidation and harassment against civil society and the media. The High Commissioner’s request follows a highly contentious crackdown on anti-government protests last April, in which more than 50 people were killed. And in May, during the Nicaraguan Mother’s [...]

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday that the Australian government officially recognizes West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In the prime minister’s announcement, he singled out the UN for hypocritical stances in condemning and passing resolutions against Israel while not taking any action towards Myanmar, Syria or Russia. In addition, the prime minister [...]

Delegates from 164 UN member states assembled in Marrakech, Morrocco, to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration on Monday. The compact reaffirms the signing nations’ commitment to protecting the human rights of migrants and acknowledges that migration is an issue that requires collective, multinational action. While the compact does not create new [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed to add Kisor v. Wilkie to its docket on Monday. The court will limit its review to the first question presented by the petition for certiorari, which asks the court to reconsider precedent from Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand that directs courts to defer to [...]

US President Donald Trump told reporters Friday he is nominating William Barr, a former attorney general under President George HW Bush, to be the next Attorney General. Barr has public experience in the CIA, Department of Justice, White House and as a clerk for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [...]

The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a proposed initiative to block funding to open up safe injection sites in King County. In response to the opioid epidemic in 2016, Seattle and King County created a “Heroin and Prescription Opioid Addiction Task Force. This task force was created “to identify strategies and recommendations to improve [...]

The US Senate voted 63-to-37 Wednesday on a procedural step to approve Senate Joint Resolution 16 to suspend US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Senate Joint Resolution 16 says that Congress, pursuant to both the 1973 War Powers Resolution and section 1013 of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985, [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-0 Tuesday that the Endangered Species Act permits the Secretary of the Interior to designate private land as “critical habitat” of endangered species, which then limits the ability to develop the designated land so long as it is a habitat for endangered species. However, courts should use the arbitrary and capricious standards [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule to deny asylum to migrants who illegally cross the southern border into the US, saying the policy likely violates federal law on asylum eligibility. On November 9, the Department of Homeland Security and Department [...]