The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest Thursday on behalf of two conservative student groups at the University of California, Berkeley who are suing the school for violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech, due process and equal protection. The complaint was filed by the Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) and [...]
A group of five UN Human Right’s experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a “continuing pattern of death sentences handed out on the basis of evidence obtained through torture or ill treatment, often during a period of enforced disappearance.” This [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Hussein told the World Economic Forum on Friday that “companies that take action to end discrimination and support LGBTI communities can be a motor for change.” Zeid explained that companies that are early adopters of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) Tackling [...]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday halted the planned execution of Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison. Vernon Madison was convicted in Alabama of murdering a police officer in 1985. He was scheduled to be executed on January 25. Madison’s attorneys petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, claiming that Madison is not [...]
The NAACP filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), former acting secretary Elaine Costanzo Duke and current secretary Kirstjen Nielsen after the Trump administration revoked the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian citizens in November 2017. TPS was created to allow Haitians work authorization and temporary residency in the US after [...]
A federal judge granted a request to acquit Senator Bob Menendez and his friend Salomon Melgen Wednesday on several charges in a bribery case that ended in a mistrial . The democratic senator from New Jersey was charged in 2015 with 18 counts of bribery, fraud, violating the Travel Act and making false statements to [...]
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Mexico’s National Workers Union (MNWU) filed a complaint with the US National Administrative Office (NAO) Thursday claiming that Mexico is preparing to undermine its own labor laws, adding to decades of alleged non-compliance with its labor obligations under the North American Agreement on [...]
Critics of the government in Azerbaijan have been arrested under suspicious circumstances and convicted this month on politically-motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Gozel Bayramli, a member of the opposition party, Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, and Afgan Mukhtarli, a journalist, were arrested at two separate places along the Georgia border. During the arrests, authorities [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed an executive order mandating internet providers comply with net neutrality. The order makes New York the second state after Montana to update their procurement procedures to require that internet service providers comply with net neutrality standards. It states that “internet is an essential service that should be [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the deadly Mosque attack in eastern Benghazi that left 34 people dead and 90 wounded, the majority of whom were male civilians including three young children. According to a local hospital source, the car bombs exploded within fifteen-to-thirty minutes of each other sometime after 8:00 PM on Tuesday [...]
