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The Americas' top human rights commission on Thursday called on Honduras to investigate growing violence against trans people in the Central American nation, where three transgender women were killed in the first week of this month alone. The Washington-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said more must be done to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people in Honduras who face ongoing abuse, and to prosecute crimes against them. Twenty-one LGBT+ people have been murdered since January, according to local watchdog group Cattrachas, up from 18 in the same period last year.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:00:56 -0400

United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock called out Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday for only paying a "modest proportion" of the hundreds of millions of dollars they pledged five months ago to a humanitarian appeal for Yemen. Both countries each promised $750 million at a U.N. fundraising event in February that was seeking $4 billion, but Saudi Arabia has so far only paid $121.7 million and the United Arab Emirates about $195 million, according to U.N. figures.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:58:38 -0400

A court in the Canadian province of Quebec on Thursday rejected a bid to suspend parts of a new provincial law that bans public sector employees from wearing religious symbols to work. The law, adopted on June 16, prompted critics to accuse the province's right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec government of discriminating against Muslims. Polls indicated broad support in Quebec for the move.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:58:29 -0400

BMW has named its top production manager, Oliver Zipse, as CEO to lead the luxury automaker through a shift to new ways of doing business such as electric vehicles and offering cars on a per-use basis. The company said Thursday that Zipse, 55, would succeed Harald Krueger on Aug. 16. Krueger, 53, had said on July 5 he wouldn't seek to renew his contract when it expires next May.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:57:29 -0400

The city council in Berkeley, Calif., votes to remove gender-specific words from its municipal code.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:54:05 -0400