Dubbed a “Stephen Miller special” by one former Trump administration official, the Title 42 policy has since March 2020 allowed the use – or misuse, as public health experts have repeatedly concluded – of public health authority to block and expel people at the U.S. southwest border without due process, adherence to refugee law and treaties, or immigration law consequences. [read post]

Lai’s lawyers have since filed an urgent appeal with the UN special rapporteur on torture raising evidence of the torture of a key prosecution witness. [read post]

Article 14, the prohibition of discrimination, means that the rights in the Convention should be ‘secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status. [read post]