Major brands, such as CocaCola, Unilever, Starbucks and Verizon have joined together to boycott advertising on Facebook, in a campaign labelled “Stop Hate for Profit”.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County [2020] that the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of “sex”, includes discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
A pattern of racialised institutional abuse and brutality in America has led to growing calls to “defund the police”.
After his alleged breach of lockdown rules was excused by the police and the government, Dominic Cummings is now facing the prospect of a private prosecution for the alleged road traffic offence of driving to Barnard Castle with defective eyesight.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, has stated that people protesting on the streets are at risk of on-the-spot fines of upwards of £100, or even a criminal record for defying social distancing regulations. The question arises as to how compatible this approach is with protestors’ human rights.
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of online discussion website Reddit, has announced his resignation from the company’s board, urging them to replace him with a black candidate.
The UK government is planning on setting the boundaries of judicial review to ensure that it cannot be used to conduct “politics by other means”.
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said in an op-ed in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that he will offer around 3m Hong Kong residents a chance to move to the UK to seek refuge if China implements its national security law.
The UK Government has unveiled new measures that would allow terrorism suspects, yet to be convicted, to face indefinite controls.
The murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 at the hands of a US law enforcement officer and the subsequent protests have encouraged scrutiny of “qualified immunity”. This doctrine has given legal impunity to many police officers involved in police brutality in the US.