At the conclusion of a 10-day visit to Thailand, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights issued a statement Wednesday saluting progress by the Thai government but urging improvements in some areas. The group’s goal is to help implement the UN’s Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights . During the visit in [...]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading a group of 17 states and seven cities in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday against the Census Beureau and Commerce Department in an attempt to remove citizenship questions that have been added to the 2020 Census questionnaire. The last time the US Census contained questions regarding citizenship [...]
In the first sentencing in the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Muller into Russian meddling, 33-year-old Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in prison and a $200,000 fine, followed by two months of supervised release. Van der Zwaan pleaded guilty in February after being indicted on charges of lying [...]
The Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in Germany confirmed Tuesday that an application has been filed by prosecutors in Germany to extradite the deposed Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont . A three-judge senate for criminal matters of the court is now entrusted with the responsibility to determine whether extradition of Puigdemont is warranted under the circumstances. The [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he is cancelling Monday’s relocation agreement with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The agreement followed harsh criticism Israel received after the government approved a plan that would require asylum seekers to choose between imprisonment or deportation to Rwanda or Uganda. The agreement presented by the UNHCR was an [...]
Elected officials from 10 Florida cities, led by Weston Mayor Daniel Stermer , filed a lawsuit in Florida state court Monday against Governor Rick Scott, Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi and other Florida officials challenging a state law that imposes penalties whenever a municipality or its officials are found to impinge on the state legislature’s [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of California Monday seeking an injunction against a state law that prohibits the sale of federal land. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District Court of California, also names California Governor Jerry Brown and the California State Land [...]
The California Supreme Court held Monday that Proposition 69, otherwise known as the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act (DNA Act), which authorizes and requires law enforcement officials to collect DNA samples and fingerprints from all persons who are arrested for and/or convicted of felony offenses, is reasonable and valid under the state’s [...]
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced the agency’s intent to revise greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks. The emissions standards will affect vehicles with model years of 2022-2025. Pruitt criticized the Obama Administration’s emissions standards, saying the former administration “made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport [...]
Nauru announced Monday it is cutting ties with the High Court of Australia and establishing its own Court of Appeals. On its Twitter page, the Republic of Nauru said : As a sovereign nation with a democratically (re)elected government, we will make decisions based on what is best for our people, not what ill-informed, racist, [...]
