UN experts said on Thursday that the new recommendation from the European Commission is a “slippery slope” to solve migration problems. According to the UN the recommendation is focused on more rapid return rates and is disregarding the human rights of the migrants. The recommendation also encourages the use of increased detention, even for children, [...]
A UN rights expert on Thursday urged the international community to help protect civilians in the northern and central regions of the country amid growing violence and crime sprees. Suliman Baldo , the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, reported increasing attacks and incidences of theft targeting humanitarian workers in [...]
The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that individuals cannot demand that their personal data be erased from company records. The court said the ruling came from the public need for legal certainty to protect third party interests. The registers hold very little personal data and do not infringe on privacy. The court reserved its [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said Thursday that the “fundamental right to strike must be preserved.” Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai’s remarks were in response to a Human Rights Council event about freedoms of association and assembly in the workplace in addition to an important meeting [...]
The Colorado House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would ban sexual orientation conversion therapy for people under 18. The bill would also make licensed physicians and mental health providers “subject to disciplinary action” for performing conversion therapy. The bill defines conversion therapy as “any practice by a licensee or registrant that seeks [...]
A Texas Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would limit access to public restrooms to those corresponding to a person’s gender as marked on their birth certificate. The bill, promoted as advocating for women’s privacy, would deny the majority of public restroom accommodations to transgender citizens in the state. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday against a Sudanese man who was challenging the deprivation of his UK citizenship. The man was born in Sudan and had become a naturalized citizen of the UK in 2000. Beginning between 2009-2010, he is suspected to have made affiliations with Al-Shabaab and to have engaged [...]
More than 170 organizations urged acting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai Tuesday to preserve net neutrality . The letter , signed by organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Greenpeace and the American Library Association , asks Pai to “oppose legislation and regulatory actions that would threaten net neutrality,” in the interest [...]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday named acting Solicitor General Noel Francisco as his choice for the permanent position. Formerly a partner at large international law firm Jones Day , Francisco has spent a career in litigation. Francisco graduated from the University of Chicago in 1996, clerked for the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia [...]
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has federally established rights to groundwater in the Coachella Valley reservation in California. This litigation proceeded in three phases in the trial court, but the Ninth Circuit [...]
