Governor Newsom vetoed the California bill to prohibit discrimination based on caste. He claimed that such discrimination was already prohibited by California law, but a recent court decision found otherwise.

California passed a law requiring all data brokers to participate in a state "delete all my data" program. The bill makes some exceptions (not listed in the article). If you can tell me the specifics, I would appreciate it.

Also, I am not sure if it covers data brokers that keep data on Californians but are not "in" California. If it does not cover them, I tend to think it won't make a big difference.

*Extreme weather displaced 43m children in past six years, UNICEF reports.*

The article says that 125 million people of all ages were displaced due to extreme weather events.

Human rights campaigners have no hope of excluding China from getting a seat on the UN Human Rights Counsel, but they are trying at least to reduce the number of votes it will get.

Other international institutions are likewise structured based on the assumptions that governments that disrespect human rights wholesale (not just occasionally in practice, as the US does) will not come to dominate the institutions. But when they do, it is like a Republican gerrymander — it is almost impossible to end their unjust influence.

A displaced Kurd from Azerbaijan comments on the carefully stimulated hatred between Armenians and Azeris, and the falsehoods used to stimulated it.