A UN committee found Friday that the UK is breaching the rights of women in Northern Ireland by restricting their access to abortions. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) stated that women and girls in Northern Ireland are faced with systematic violations of their rights because the UK is forcing them [...]
Twenty-three state attorneys general, led by New York’s Eric Schneiderman , filed a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reversal of Obama administration net neutrality regulations. Net neutrality attempts to ensure that Internet service providers enable access to [...]
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ruled that defendants who are pregnant women, mothers with young children or people with disabilities, who are accused of non-violent crimes, will not be detained in jail before their trials, but will be under house arrest. According to Human Rights Watch the decision came in the wake of public outcry regarding [...]
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan released a report Friday identifying 43 high-profile military personnel who may be responsible for war crimes. Among those identified are eight Lieutenant Generals, 17 Major Generals, eight Brigadier Generals, five Colonels and three state governors who may bear direct responsibility for violations of human rights. Drafters [...]
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens was indicted on a charge of felony invasion of privacy on Thursday. Greitens was charged with one count of first degree invasion of privacy for knowingly photographing K.S. in a state of full or partial nudity in a place where she had a reasonable expectation of privacy, and he placed the [...]
The Oregon legislature on Thursday approved HB 4145 , which amends current statutes relating to firearm ownership. The bill amends language of the original bill to include “a family or household member” and other language to cover relationships other than marriages. They have defined those relationships as “means, with respect to the victim, the victim’s [...]
Myanmar officials have been bulldozing depopulated Rohingya villages that were previously the targets of arson by the government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. Satellite images have shown that at least 55 villages were cleared since late 2017. HRW has called on Myanmar to preserve the villages until they can be investigated by UN experts [...]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment leveling 32 new charges against Paul Manafort and Richard Gates in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Thursday. The charges include 23 charges related to falsifying tax returns and not reporting foreign assets. The charges also include nine charges of bank fraud and [...]
A large group of law firms and prominent law professors, led by David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP, alongside the Leauge of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has filed four lawsuits challenging the winner-take-all approach to the electoral college. Under the Constitution, the electoral college provides that the “electors” of the college are the [...]
Amnesty International (AI) launched its 2017 Report Thursday, highlighting human rights issues in 159 countries and territories across the world. The report recognizes conflict, poverty, refugee crises and discrimination. In a foreword, AI Secretary General Salil Shetty called attention to the millions across the world experiencing what he refers to as “the bitter fruits of [...]
