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66% of internet users live where political or social sites are blocked, and 78% are in countries where people have been arrested for online posts. New social media regulations have emerged in dozens of countries in the past year alone.

We think it failed properly to recognise the nature and scope of the positive obligations imposed by Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the rights of trans and intersex people, and to avoid relegating them to 'an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other'.

Up to 65 Labour MPs are believed to be ready to rebel against the justice secretary's plans ahead of the first vote on the controversial bill on Tuesday. MP Karl Turner, a former Starmer loyalist, is leading the calls for a rethink.

In an interview with the Guardian, Richard Hermer, the government's most senior law officer and a close ally of Keir Starmer, said that in a complicated and dangerous world, leaders should be able to use statecraft to consider other factors when establishing whether to hold allies to account. In his first public comments since Britain's reaction to the US attack on Venezuela and threats toward Greenland, Hermer refrained from singling out the Trump administration,

Taoiseach rejects suggestion that current legislation is not strong enough to deal with issue Women's Aid removes itself from X, calling the crisis a 'tipping point' Human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher said such sexualised abuse of children online has 'devastating' impacts Ministers are scrambling to find a way to combat an explosion of digitally created images of semi-nude women and children on the social media platform X.

substantive claim to judicial review alleges procedural unfairness in the processes of ICGS, as well as perversity and illegality

This script is based on a theory proposed by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Ackerman's idea is laid out in his 1991 book We The People: Foundations, and is discussed in the second of his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures of 2006. It's gained prominence since the 2024 election and the wholesale assault on our governmental system by Trump.

Do not use any information from a non-government source (e.g., an NGO, even if it is or has been funded by the U.S. government, or media) that advances policies inconsistent with presidential executive orders, including promotion of 'racial justice,' 'diversity, equity, and inclusion,' and gender ideology, the cable says, per . The department deems such sources not to be credible, the cable goes on. The extraordinary instruction could be applied widely, as Politico points out. Many major human rights groups like Amnesty International tout their investment in initiatives like DEI, as do many large news outlets like The New York Times.

"It's an absolute insult to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein that this government's only response is to ask the Cabinet Secretary for a 'review. "This isn't a case for an HR review; it is a case for the Metropolitan Police. "Peter Mandelson has clearly broken the law and stands now accused of serious misconduct in a public office, and he should be tried for his offences."

On this page, you can find minutes of all Board meetings for the last five years. We aim to publish the minutes of meetings as soon as we can after they have been formally approved.

The Online Safety Act (OSA) contains a provision that allows Ofcom to seek a court order imposing business disruption measures on a website or app that is in breach of the legislation. These measures are in effect a block on the recipient operating in the UK. This is because they include ordering an internet service provider to block access to a platform or requiring payment providers or advertisers to withdraw their services from that business.