A US federal court has issueda preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from constructing the president’s border wall using funds illegally transferred from military accounts, including pension and pay funds, under counterdrug authorities.
Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the US state of Arizona to drop charges against a humanitarian volunteer who is to go on trial for helping migrants in a notoriously dangerous desert area of the state.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule which aims to dramatically expand the ability of health care institutions and workers to refuse to provide medical services if they have a moral or religious objection.
Amnesty International says the response of the Trump government was a failure to support the basic human rights of Puerto Ricans at a time when they needed it most.
The US government has allowed gun violence in the country to become a human rights crisis, said Amnesty International as it publishes a major new report on the issue.
The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Montana have released documents corroborating reports of collaboration between state and federal law enforcement officials ahead of the anticipated Keystone XL protests by environmental activists and indigenous communities over the construction of an oil pipeline
The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has agreed to provide evidence from British intelligence services to support the prosecution of two alleged terrorists in the United States without seeking assurances that the accused would not be subject to the death penalty.