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Judges maintain bans on gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee and Kentucky
By Jonathan Mattise On September 29, 2023 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled. In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel late Thursday, the majority wrote that elected lawmakers…
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Iran: Harassment, reprisals continue for Mahsa Amini’s family
On September 14, 2023 Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested and forced into a van by Iran’s so called “morality police” in the capital Tehran on 13 September last year. Authorities alleged she was not in conformity with the country’s strict laws on mandatory veiling. She died on 16 September reportedly after suffering a heart…
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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, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Since taking over the country in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed laws and policies intended to deny…
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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 the continued and widespread deterioration of human rights in Nicaragua. Punishing and locking out those who voice their views, and further intensifying the country’s isolation,…
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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 of armed violence in metropolitan Port-au-Prince in recent weeks has put thousands of families at risk in the neighborhoods of Carrefour-Feuilles and Savanes Pistaches, and…
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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 Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes…
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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 of anyone younger than 18 is unconstitutional. Senate Bill 12 “impermissibly infringes on the First Amendment and chills free speech,” US District Judge David Hittner…
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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 | WASHINGTON – A Highland Park, Illinois, elementary school evacuated its premises and relocated its young students for two consecutive days following bomb threats. This alarming incident…
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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 days before it was to take effect. Legislative debate over Montana’s bill drew national attention this spring after Republicans punished Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr — the first…
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