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Afghanistan: Taliban’s Gender Crimes Against Humanity
Women, Girls Are Targets; ICC Mandated to Prosecute Gender-Based Cases On September 8, 2023 (New York) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women and girls,…
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Nicaragua: Continued and widespread deterioration of human rights
On September 12, 2023 DELIVERED BY Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT 54th session of the Human Rights Council Mr Vice President,Excellencies,Colleagues, I am deeply saddened by…
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Escalating violence threatens thousands of children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Nearly 200,000 people, half of whom are children, are now displaced across the country, with 130,000 in the capital alone. On September 11, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 11 September 2023 – A hotspot…
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Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s bid to use congressional map with just one majority-Black district
The court’s decision is in line with its June ruling in the same case that reaffirmed key protections for minority voters. By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on…
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Texas law banning some drag shows is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
By Shawna Mizelle On September 27, 2023 WashingtonCNN — A federal judge in Texas declared on Tuesday that a state law that bans “sexually oriented performances” on public property and in the presence…
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Libs Of TikTok post instigates another round of bomb threats
An all too familiar occurrence an elementary school evacuated for bomb threats after being targeted by Libs of TikTok for a pride flag On September 25, 2023 By Erin Reed…
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Montana judge temporarily blocks enforcement of law to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors
By Amy Beth Hanson On September 27, 2023 HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is temporarily blocked, a state judge ruled Wednesday, just four…
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Child poverty more than doubles — a year after hitting record low, Census data shows
By Jennifer Ludden On September 12, 2023 The poverty rate in the U.S. has risen dramatically in the year since pandemic benefits ran out — and the child poverty rate…
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Why California officials traveled to Kenya to find solutions to poverty
By Mackenzie May On August 10, 2023 California officials representing some of the wealthiest cities in the world traveled to one of the poorest villages in Africa this week to…
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