Payal Shah

CERTIORARI GRANTED NOEM, SEC. OF HOMELAND, ET AL. V. AL OTRO LADO, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.

QUESTION PRESENTED The Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., provides that an alien who "arrives in the United States" may apply for asylum and must be inspected by an immigration officer. 8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(A), 1225(a)(1) and (3). The question presented is whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border "arrives in the United States" within the meaning of those provisions.

In its orders this morning, SCOTUS grants one new case, relating to asylum claims.

Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Docket for Noem v. Al Otro Lado: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts to Healthcare Trigger a Global Human Rights Crisis: How the World Must Respond The U.N. Human Rights Council's current session offers a critical opening for leaders to address the health crisis spurred by U.S. funding cuts.

Babies are again being born #HIV positive in #Uganda, after US #ForeignAid cuts.

@payalkshah.bsky.social writes it’s among many signs the resulting global #HealthCrisis is also a #HumanRights crisis.

www.justsecurity.org/114839/us-fo...

#UNHumanRightsCouncil #HRC59

Peaceful protest is a fundamental human right. But preparing for encounters with common crowd-control weapons used by law enforcement, like teargas & other chemical irritants, can help protect you and others from the health impacts of these weapons.

ICE operations at immigration courts intensified today. Brief 🧵on what's happening:

- A person facing removal shows up for a hearing.
- At the hearing, ICE unexpectedly asks the immigration judge to dismiss the case without prejudice.
- If the judge says yes, the hearing ends, court is over.

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🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.

Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'

Insurrection Ed has some opinions about medical research 🤪

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

Shadow Hearing - Thrown into Chaos: The Dismantling of USAID and its Real-Life Consequences

Watch the hearing at 10 AM Eastern here: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ID=...

On Tues, House Democrats will hold a shadow hearing on the impacts of USAID funding cuts. For PHR partners in Ethiopia and DRC, the abrupt aid halt has hindered efforts to combat infectious disease, provide care for sexual violence, and ensure access to justice.

Read more: phr.org/wp-content/u...

MONDAY: Space is still available for our #CSW69 event on gender justice and the crimes against humanity treaty!

Join leading experts and activists for a discussion on the treaty effort's historic potential to advance justice for gender-based crimes.

Register: bit.ly/GenderCAHtre...

There is every indication that the abrupt end to these programs will trigger devastating health impacts including - one that borders and militaries will be unable to prevent from cascading globally. It’s critical governments step up to fill the vacuum created by US aid cuts-NOW before it’s too late

Standing in the Rift Valley last week, the birthplace of humanity, it was impossible not to reflect on the gravity of US funding cuts on humans’ survival. PHR’s clinician partners from Kenya, Ethiopia, and DRC shared firsthand accounts of shuttering of TB programs, GBV care, and vaccination efforts.

Important development. Of course, there have been rumblings of this for the past few months, due to the political infighting in the Philippines.
#warondrugs #ICC #Philippines

Humanitarian and health-care crises in eastern DR Congo An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health challenges. Rebecca Sers reports.

Thank you @thelancet.bsky.social for speaking with PHR about the crisis in #DRC and the urgent need to prevent attacks on health and ensure access to care. Read more below ⬇️

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New in @thehill.com: Beyond fomenting misogyny in the US, Trump’s recent EOs have hindered critical measures to prevent sexual violence in war and fractured the medical and legal supports survivors need to heal. As conflicts flare globally, the timing couldn’t be worse thehill.com/opinion/whit...

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.”

The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

Dear journalists: Now, more than ever,

✨The lawyers need to see the actual court filings.✨

Yes, I know you summarized. Yes, I know your non-attorney readers don't care.

But we need to see the documents. The actual documents.

If you're pulling docs from PACER, use RECAP & give us a link. Please.

PHR continues our decades-long calls to close Guantánamo and respect immigrants’ rights. Full statement: phr.org/news/trump-a...

Further, for decades, PHR has researched and advocated against U.S. torture practices, including at Guantánamo Bay. We have exposed the profound harms inflicted on U.S. detainees by these torture methods. t.co/s9xYbUDVgM

PHR has extensively documented the harms of U.S. immigration detention facilities, detailing prolonged solitary confinement, medical neglect, preventable deaths, and other abuse at immigration facilities across the country, under both Republican and Democrat administrations. t.co/MzEW14UMVQ

“To now see Trump’s immigration agenda merge with the heinous history of Guantánamo should be a wake-up call to policymakers, clinicians, and the public that the U.S. government is scaling up its cruelty."

BREAKING: Donald Trump has issued an executive order called "Enforcing the Hyde Amendment," revoking two of Joe Biden's post-Dobbs orders, which directed federal agencies to identify actions they could take to protect access to abortion.

The latest effort by TX AG Paxton to use the TX ban to threaten physicians who provide abortion care- this time aimed at drs in states with shield laws.

The confusion + fear are the point, aimed at scaring physicians into denying evidence-based medical care that is legal under their own state laws

Ethiopia’s Agony: ‘I Have Never Seen This Kind of Cruelty in My Life’ A rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes, even as new conflicts roil the nation.

Ethiopia‘s (forgotten) #Tigray conflict: @nytimes.com with rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes. “There are still dead bodies everywhere.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/m...

As women detained in Sednaya prison are freed their confusion matches that of the nation and the region but their freedom is to be cherished. We should all now just try to support the #Syrian people and gather the evidence necessary for justice for Assad and his cronies.

Taliban move to ban women training as nurses and midwives ‘an outrageous act of ignorance’ Afghan students and activists condemn halt to medical courses amid warnings of women dying from lack of healthcare

“A society without female doctors or medical workers is doomed.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Some tough negotiations & drama, but 6th Comm was able to decide to move to negotiations by consensus. Prep comms in 2026 & 2027, negotiations in 2028 & 2029. A lot of hard work ahead to make sure we get a progressive treaty that meaningfully protects victims, but onwards!

@leilasadat1.bsky.social