The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear cases over state policies concerning the public school-funded sports teams that transgender students may join. The plaintiffs, two transgender women students named Lindsay Hecox and Becky Pepper-Jackson (BPJ), sued Idaho and West Virginia officials, respectively, on the basis of Title IX and Equal Protection Clause violations. They sought [...]
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs placed Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer currently residing in Ukraine, and Alla Konstantinova, a journalist with the dissident news website Mediazona, on a wanted list on Friday, according to local media. Both individuals have previously been marked as “foreign agents.” Charges against Polozov are not known yet. In December 2024, [...]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Friday that humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are escalating rapidly as over 1.4 million people, mostly returnees from Iran and Pakistan, have entered the country in 2025 alone. According to UNHCR’s Afghanistan representative Arafat Jamal, the scale and speed of these returns are straining the agency’s [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday praised the recent advisory opinion on the climate crisis from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a “landmark step forward,” urging states to take meaningful action through legislation, policymaking and international cooperation. The IACHR released Advisory Opinion 32/25 on Thursday, [...]
Europe’s top human rights official on Friday raised concerns that Serbian authorities are using violence and arbitrary arrests to disperse protests against President Aleksandar Vučić’s populist government. The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Michael O’Flaherty, wrote in a statement that he was “concerned about the current human rights situation in Serbia.” He specifically [...]
The US Supreme Court confirmed Thursday that the US government may proceed with the deportation of eight migrants to South Sudan. This order comes at a time when the US State Department has issued a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory for South Sudan due to high levels of armed conflict and violent crime. On [...]
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned on Thursday of ongoing mass atrocities and attacks on medical facilities in Sudan’s North Darfur region, amid escalating conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). MSF called on warring parties to immediately cease indiscriminate violence and to enable urgent, comprehensive humanitarian assistance. MSF’s new [...]
Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan on Thursday, according to local media, with the Taliban flag being raised at the Afghan embassy in Moscow. Earlier this year, Russia removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, citing “the need for cooperation in combating drug trafficking and terrorism, [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a pair of consolidated cases that could reshape the legal landscape for state-run transportation systems operating across state lines. The court granted limited certiorari to determine whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) qualifies as an “arm of the state” entitled to interstate sovereign immunity [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on UN member states Thursday to renew the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), emphasizing that the mandate remains a vital mechanism for protecting universal human rights. As the UN Human Rights Council prepares to vote on [...]
