Country: World Source: UN Human Rights Council In addition to 68.3 million people displaced by conflict and violence, an increase of 49 per cent from five years ago, 7.7 million persons were internally displaced at the end of 2023 due to natural disasters.

On 18 June 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders reached an agreement with the California Chamber of Commerce and business and labor groups to reform California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). The deal will alter the PAGA litigation landscape while avoiding the ballot measure scheduled […]

Confronting the Lithium Rush: Salinas Grandes in Danger in Salta and Jujuy, Argentina Country Argentina agnes Fri, 06/21/2024 – 17:26 Issues Human Rights Program 5 Main Image By Clemente Flores (Kolla) Photos by Joaquin Zaldivar I am the President of the El Angosto Indigenous community of the Salinas Grandes and […]

Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: UN News Centre Desperate shortages of essentials have left the enclave’s most vulnerable struggling to carry on amid stifling heat, heavy fighting, disease spread and a breakdown in law and order, UN warned.

K&L Gates partner Francesco Carloni has been named “Partner of the Year” at the 2024 Luxury Law Awards ceremony held on June 11. Organized in conjunction with the Luxury Law Summit held at London’s British Museum, the Luxury Law Awards each year recognize the law firms, in-house legal teams, deals, […]

On 22 February 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) published the statistics for federal civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.1 The DOJ announced that the “government and whistleblowers were party to 543 settlements and judgments, the highest number of settlements and judgments in a single year.”2 Despite the high […]