The US House of Representatives recently passed the “Cambodia Democracy Act of 2019”. If passed by the Senate and signed into legislation by Donald Trump, the bill would allow the president to sanction high-level Cambodian […]
Amnesty International has joined other rights groups–including Human Rights Watch–in calling for the United Nations to institute an outright international ban on the use of “killer robots”, which they define as fully autonomous weapons systems. […]
The European Commission levied a massive $5.1 billion fine on Google recently for breaching EU anti-trust laws. The tech giant broke the law by allegedly requiring all smartphone manufacturers to pre-install the Google search engine, […]
The Thai government and businesses are rushing to take steps to implement data protection protocols that rise to the standard set by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), according to The Nation. The […]
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Under the Travel Ban from the Trump Administration, travelers and immigrants from majority Muslim countries such as Chad, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Iran will not be able to enter the United States. AP News […]
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International Law
Germany: A court in Duesseldorf ruled that men have a right to urinate while standing up after a landlord’s lawsuit seeking $2,855 for bathroom floor repairs was thrown out, reports The New Zealand Herald. The […]
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U.S. President Barack Obama plans to follow through with the immigration reform he promised in November. The New York Times reports that the bill would require immigrants seeking to obtain legal status to pay fines […]
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Human Rights Watch | In late August 2012, the Chinese government forcibly returned at least 4,000 ethnic Kachin refugees to a conflict zone in northern Burma in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said […]
