UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on the government of Myanmar Tuesday to grant nationality, or at least legal status, to the Rohingya Muslim minority group that resides in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. Myanmar’s security forces have responded to recent violence from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army with indiscriminate attacks in the Rakhine State. Guterres [...]
A number of prominent Republicans on Monday and filed amicus briefs imploring the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering. The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford on October 3. Prominent politicians who filed briefs urging the court to find gerrymandering unconstitutional include: John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse and John Kasich, Bob [...]
The European Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Slovakia and Hungary must host asylum seekers as a part of the EU migration policy . Slovakia and Hungary filed a complaint arguing that it was illegal for Brussels to require them to take in hundreds of Syrian refugees and that it would destabilize their economies. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday stayed an injunction that had blocked the Texas voter ID law , allowing its implementation. The injunction was
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday condemned both China’s oppression of critics of the nation’s human rights record and the UN’s failure to stop such conduct. The report alleges that, “China has worked consistently and often aggressively to silence criticism of its human rights record before UN bodies and has taken actions aimed at weakening [...]
A 26-year-old Mexican immigrant in New York has amended his ongoing lawsuit against the US government to challenge the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program . Batalla Vidal, who initially brought the suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York in August 2016, [...]
Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga , whose campaign against the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta was declared unsuccessful after a countrywide election last month by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Committee (IEBC) , has issued a statement that he would not be participating in the October re-election process. The August election itself has been invalidated by [...]
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi reported on Monday that various crimes against humanity have been committed in the troubled country since investigations began in April 2015. In June the commission released evidence of human rights violations such as illegal executions, torture, inhumane treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary arrests and detention, and orchestrated [...]
The Guatemalan Supreme Court ruled on Monday that legislators will review a request to lift President Jimmy Morales’s immunity from prosecution amid mounting evidence of illegal political financing. According to prosecutors, Morales’s 2015 presidential campaign secretly received $825,000 in financing, and certain expenses were paid for by an unknown source of funding. While Morales has [...]
