The UN Security Council voted Thursday to end a 13-year-long peacekeeping operation in Haiti. The council will slowly downgrade the UN’s presence in Haiti to a small policing force over the next six months. Following the recommendations of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres the Council also agreed to establish the new United Nations Mission for Justice Support [...]
The Office of Inspector General on Wednesday released an investigative report with findings on allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment at Yellowstone National Park . The investigation began in September 2016 after an employee alleged that a pervasive culture of gender bias against women, sexual harassment, and financial misconduct existed in Yellowstone’s maintenance division [...]
Physician Jumana Nagarwala, was charged Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on minors out of a medical office in Livonia, Michigan. According to the complaint , the girls were as young as six to eight years of age and were transported from out [...]
The Canadian government on Thursday announced a plan to legal recreational use of marijuana by July 2018. Canada is set to implement this plan into law nationwide, though the government has stated that it would leave specific details, such as commercial regulations, up to each individual province. Proponents of the plan have stated the measure [...]
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad on Thursday signed legislation expanding gun rights in the state. House File 517 gives gun owners the ability to defend themselves in public and preventing local governments from implementing their own rules. The law expands Iowa’s stand your ground rules as well as individuals with concealed-carry permits to have firearms in [...]
Guest Columnist Kip Wainscott, Head of Legal & External Relations at CrowdJustice, discusses the fight against gerrymandering, and the value of digital organizing tools to empower movements and make them more accessible… Across the country, lawyers and voting rights advocates are bringing fresh vigor to the fight against unjust election practices. Just last week, a [...]
Over two dozen US insurance companies associated with Travelers Companies initiated a lawsuit on Wednesday against ten defendants over the September 11 terrorist attacks, including companies affiliated with Osama bin Laden’s family, Saudi banks and several charities. The companies filed suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges [...]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill into law that scales back an Obama administration regulation that protected certain federal funds for organizations that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood . The new law will allow states to block such abortion providers from federal funds provided through the Title X Family Planning program . [...]
Malaysia’s Sepang court on Thursday postponed until May proceedings against two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam .The hearing was scheduled by request of the prosecutor to determine if the women would be tried jointly and in an attempt to move the case to a higher court. The court decided to postpone proceedings until [...]
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court obscenity decision against a female artist over distribution of 3-D printed models of vaginas. Megumi Igarashi is an artist who was found guilty of distributing the models. The lower court had held that Igarushi violated article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code because the modes [...]
