The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a directive to freeze funding across federal agencies just one day after announcing the sweeping measure, which had left agencies and beneficiaries scrambling to determine its impact. However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that only the memo issuing the freeze was being rescinded, [...]

Mississippi state and the US federal government have neglected to protect Black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial [...]

A Delhi court directed the police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against journalist Rana Ayyub following a complaint accusing her of insulting Hindu deities and spreading “anti-India sentiment” through her posts on X. The court’s order came in response to a petition filed by advocate Amita Sachdeva, who alleged that Ayyub’s tweets, some [...]

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth under age 19 and block federal funding for such treatments. The order requires federal health programs to exclude coverage for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for minors beginning in 2026. Key provisions [...]

A US federal district judge granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid on Tuesday, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments next Monday morning. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo directing federal agencies to temporarily pause [...]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was put under investigation on Tuesday for the release and repatriation of Libyan Judicial Police chief Osama Almasri Njeem, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi opened investigations against Giorgia Meloni for allegedly aiding and abetting Almasri. This occurred following a lawsuit issued by [...]

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development marks a significant step in addressing systemic inequalities in the Indian criminal justice system. The court initiated these proceedings suo moto (on its own accord) after [...]

An Ontario judge ruled on Tuesday that the two teenage girls charged in the “swarming” death of Kenneth Lee in Toronto in 2022 had their charter rights violated and called the provincial government’s strip-search policy “troubling.” The judge opted to give the accused girls a reduced sentence. Justice David Stewart Rose found that routine searches violated the [...]

Serbia’s Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation on Tuesday amid ongoing protests that have erupted since the deadly collapse of a railway station roof last November. Vucevic and his government will remain in office until a new prime minister is elected and a new government is formed. Milos Vucevic explained during a press conference [...]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he signed an executive order to ban transgender people serving in the US Armed Forces. The executive order, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” states: “Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false [...]