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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on the new Lebanese government to adopt a human rights-oriented agenda that promotes the rule of law, transparency and accountability. The organization urged the government to implement legal reforms across various sectors to meet the needs of the people and build a brighter future for the country. In [...]

In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]

US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act (the “Act”) into law Wednesday, which will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States and have been charged with, or arrested for, burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. This is the first piece of legislation that President Trump has [...]

A federal judge sentenced Bob Menendez, the former US senator for New Jersey, to 11 years in prison Wednesday. Additionally, he must forfeit over $900,000. Menendez was found guilty last year on 16 counts, including bribery, corruption, and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent, after receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold [...]

The Republican-led US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi. The full Senate will vote on her confirmation as early as this week. Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) opened the meeting by highlighting Bondi’s experience as a prosecutor and her two terms as Florida’s attorney general. [...]

Monica Costa Riba, Amnesty International’s senior campaigner for women’s rights, condemned on Thursday the verdict in the case of Justyna Vydrinska, a human rights activist convicted of helping a woman access a safe abortion, stating that authorities should overturn the decision and halt the prosecution of legitimate activists. Justyna Wydrzyńska, one of the founders of [...]

Two unions representing US government workers filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump’s efforts to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers, making it easier to fire them. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), both federated unions under the AFL-CIO, represent more than 2 [...]

US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the secretary of Defense and secretary of Homeland Security to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity. Trump ordered the expansion of the center to “provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United [...]

President Donald Trump’s new executive actions on immigration could have far-reaching implications across the Americas and put asylum seekers at risk, human rights organization Amnesty International warned on Wednesday. Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, criticized the US policies, arguing that they fabricate non-existent threats and expand militarization at the expense of human dignity. [...]