A running feed of rights developments: judgments handed down, bills introduced, treaty bodies reporting, enforcement agencies acting. Items are short and dated, with a line of context explaining what changed. Suited to advocates, legal teams and journalists who need to see movement in the field quickly.
A running feed of rights developments: judgments handed down, bills introduced, treaty bodies reporting, enforcement agencies acting. Items are short and dated, with a line of context explaining what changed. Suited to advocates, legal teams and journalists who need to see movement in the field quickly.
Attempts to remove books hit record levels for a third straight year, concentrated in titles about race and LGBTQ lives, and the litigation has now reached the Supreme Court's doorstep.
Devon Clarke · May 1, 2026
Voting rights after prison depend almost entirely on which state a person was convicted in — restore-on-release states and lifetime-ban states sit side by side.
Devon Clarke · April 8, 2026
A Fifth Circuit split and an Eighth Circuit ruling barring private Section 2 suits have made voting-law enforcement geographic — and the Supreme Court has yet to settle it.
Devon Clarke · March 17, 2026
Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont ended involuntary-servitude clauses in November 2024, and the hard question now is what prison labor looks like without them.
Devon Clarke · February 22, 2026
The Supreme Court's integration mandate moved hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities into communities, and the waiting lists are what enforcement is measured against now.
Devon Clarke · January 31, 2026