ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Ajudge has extended her order barring the enforcement of a unique rule pushed by Missouri’s Republican attorney general that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. Read more
The Florida legislature passed a bill that bans transgender surgeries for minors and grants jurisdiction over children receiving gender-related treatment to courts in the state. The bill will head to Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) desk, where he is expected to sign it. The bill has been amended to include a provision granting courts “temporary emergency jurisdiction” of minors if they …
How to Turn Back the Populist Tide and Build Support for the Liberal Order (Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon) In the years immediately following World War II, voters on the left and right in Western countries both backed liberal internationalism. They found common cause in their support for policies that sought to expand international trade and …
Three members of a Saudi Arabian tribe who oppose the futuristic “smart city” project NEOM have been sentenced to death, UN human rights specialists warned on Wednesday. The men are from the Howeitat tribe, which traditionally lives on lands earmarked for the hyper-futuristic megacity planned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, according to UN Special Rapporteurs …
The GOP-controlled Texas Senate on Tuesday passed a proposal allowing the state to overturn elections in Harris County, home to the state’s most populous city Houston. The legislation penalizes county officials for running out of ballot paper at some voting sites in the 2022 election, the Houston Chronicle reported. Still, more importantly, it gives Republican Gov. Greg …
The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for human rights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Supporting democracy not only promotes such fundamental …
AMBASSADOR HAMMER: Thank you. Hopefully now you can hear me. A little technical glitch. Thank you very much, Tiffany, for arranging this media hub call, and thank you all for participating, whether here in the United States, around the continent, or wherever you may be. I hope over the course of my tenure I get a …
Idaho already had some of the strictest laws against abortion, but this one might take the cake. House Bill 242 passed the state House and is on its way to the Senate. The bill will ban minors from traveling to another state for an abortion. This could cause a disaster. Read more
Montana’s governor on Friday enacted a Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender children, days after a transgender lawmaker protesting the bill was barred from the floor of the state legislature, sparking a national furor. Read more
In an open letter to President Droupadi Murmu, a group of former judges, IPS officers, and bureaucrats “request for intervention for saving of Indian cultural traditions, religious tenets and social values.” “…If we revise the law to make same-sex sexual union rational, acceptable or moral, it will open the doors to same-sex sexual culture. Our …