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HUMAN RIGHTS
Eight Years After Backpage’s Seizure, the Sex Marketplace It Exposed Still Thrives in the Shadows
A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?
HUMAN RIGHTS
Quebec Laws Target Religious Expression, Push Educators From Classrooms
Teachers are being pushed out of Quebec classrooms for wearing hijabs, turbans and other religious symbols. Civil liberties groups say the province’s escalating secularism laws are targeting faith itself.
DRUGS
UK Marijuana Boom Driven by Just 10 Doctors Writing Half of All Prescriptions
A handful of doctors is driving a massive prescription surge in the UK’s $6.6 billion-a-year medical cannabis industry—even as new data links the drug to higher rates of depression, anxiety and heart disease.
HUMAN RIGHTS
California Church Files Federal Suit After Mob Blocks Worshippers and Families During Services
Repeated attacks forced parishioners to abandon services, prompting a lawsuit that highlights escalating threats to houses of worship across the country.
MENTAL HEALTH
Euthanasia Cases Surge as Psychiatrists Expand Abusive “Treatments” to Include Death
Assisted suicide is no longer limited to terminal illness, with psychiatric patients now deemed capable of giving “informed consent” to die—even as the same system treats them as too insane to live.
MENTAL HEALTH
Virginia Jury Awards $20 Million in Child Abuse Case at Psychiatric Facility
The jury deliberated only three hours before reaching their verdict, after video showed a psychiatric worker dragging a 13-year-old across a room by a shirt wrapped around his neck.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Wisconsin Bill Targets “Delete Button” Loophole That Lets Lawmakers Erase Public Records
A new proposal would require legislators to retain emails and correspondence just like other public officials, reviving a long-running fight over transparency, accountability and public trust in state government.
MENTAL HEALTH
Arkansas Department of Human Services Liable for Neglect, Deaths in Human Development Centers
With limited video oversight and dozens of abuse reports, advocates say Arkansas’ Human Development Centers fail to adequately protect vulnerable residents from harm.
DRUGS
UK Sees Surge in Fatal Nitazene Overdoses Tied to Sales on Telegram Messaging App
Experts warn potent synthetic opioids are spreading rapidly across Europe and may devastate users who believe they are buying other drugs.
DRUGS
Child Welfare Caseworker Arrested for Fentanyl Use While on Duty in Ohio
A Marion County Children Services employee was arrested after police say she was found driving high on fentanyl during a workday, despite a prior dismissal for violating drug-free workplace rules at a previous agency.
MENTAL HEALTH
Watchdog Finds Nursing Homes Use Schizophrenia Diagnoses to Justify Drugging of Elderly Patients
Investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General show that 17 percent of long-stay nursing home residents receive antipsychotics.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Japan’s Shame: Dissolution of Unification Church Sparks Outrage and Condemnation
A first-of-its-kind ruling in Japan orders the dissolution of a major religious organization, raising urgent questions about the state of religious freedom in modern democracies—and how quickly it can erode.
