Several groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture, or death.
Human rights organisations have called on President Trump to urgently publish his policy on the use of lethal force abroad after he reportedly changed the rules to reduce oversight and roll back safeguards.
The cost of private probation supervision in the US disproportionately harms the poor, often criminalising a person’s inability to pay their probation fees and court costs, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
A vote by the majority of Republicans on the US House Financial Services Committee to overturn a bipartisan transparency law is a major setback for combating corruption and a gift to big oil companies, says Global Witness.
Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from a process to reach a global agreement on migration, despite a plea from Pope Francis for world leaders to work together on the issue.
The United States’ move to end its longstanding policy not to use unreliable cluster munitions completely disregards the widely accepted international ban on these weapons, says Human Rights Watch.
The fifth round of secret negotiations on a new North American Free Trade Agreement has begun in Mexico. Farm policy will be a central topic of discussion among negotiators from Canada, Mexico, and the United States.