UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Tuesday condemning the state of prison and detention systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In his address, directed at the DRC president, Türk discusses the deterioration of detention conditions in the country. Notably, he highlights that crimes are being perpetrated within [...]

The US Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s appeal to review a lower court decision that bars emergency abortions violating Texas’ strict abortion ban on Monday, leaving in place restrictions on emergency abortion care in the state. The Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene in the case contrasts with its earlier action in the Idaho [...]

The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Tuesday regarding whether a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) regulation that requires gun parts sold for home assembly to have serial numbers is within the scope of a law that allows the federal government to impose background checks, record-keeping and serial number requirements on [...]

A Russian missile hit a Palau-flagged vessel on Monday in Ukraine’s southern port of Odessa. One Ukrainian national was killed while five foreign nationals among the ship’s crew members were injured. According to the head of Odessa’s Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, the aggressor initially targeted the port infrastructure. The 60-year-old Ukrainian killed by a [...]

Congressional watchdog US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded on Monday that no concrete evidence supports the effectiveness of the 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) conflict minerals disclosure rule in reducing violence within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The investigation revealed that the SEC rule did not demonstrate a decrease in the frequency or [...]

Two people have submitted an application to the Supreme Court of India requesting the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood within two months, local media reported Monday. Jammu and Kashmir was previously stripped of autonomy and placed under the Indian government’s control in 2019. The application was submitted by academic Zahoor Ahmad Bhat and socio-political activist [...]

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by X (formerly Twitter) after a District of Columbia court denied its challenge to a nondisclosure order preventing the company from sharing details with Donald Trump of a Department of Justice warrant against the former president’s activities on the social media platform. In the summary [...]

Aaron Carr, the director of the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI), announced a mass civil rights complaint against 203 real estate companies in California for illegally discriminating against Section 8 renters.  Section 8 renters refer to those eligible for rent subsidy under the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Vouchers program. The [...]

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, filed an urgent appeal on Monday to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite. The appeal addresses the independence of jurists under the constitutional amendments proposed by the current Pakistani government. Imran Khan’s appeal to the UN regards the government’s plan to amend [...]

The Supreme Court of Georgia temporarily re-instated an abortion ban while it considers whether the abortion law is unconstitutional. The new law, which took effect at 5 PM October 7, bans abortion following the sixth week of pregnancy when a fetus has a detectable heartbeat. The law, known as HB 481, or the Georgia LIFE [...]