Hundreds of thousands of older Hungarians are being forced to choose between food, medicine, and heat as inadequate pensions fail to keep pace with rising costs, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. Hungary has been facing difficulties concerning the increase in poverty among older people, which has coincided with rising inflation since 2018. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday released a previously classified memorandum assessing the legality of the January Operation Absolute Resolve, which led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Heavily redacted, it concludes that the president possesses the constitutional authority to order the military operation, which ultimately moved forward on January 3, [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rejected a sex discrimination challenge to the prison dress code on Tuesday. Judge Russell Coleman held that male and female prisoners face incomparable circumstances that justify the difference in dress code. In summer, the Hong Kong Prisoner Personal Provisions required male prisoners to wear shorts but forced female [...]

UN human rights experts have called on Egypt to lift ongoing restrictions on human rights defenders who have been released from detention, in line with international human rights standards.  The special rapporteurs warned that many face travel bans, frozen assets, and continued inclusion on the country’s terrorism watchlist, preventing them from resuming normal life despite [...]

The Sri Lankan government must take action and accountability for conflict-related sexual violence, Amnesty International said Tuesday following the release of a report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In a statement, Amnesty International urged the government to “to end impunity and publicly commit to a timeline” for [...]

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Wednesday that the country has banned 10 British activists who attempted to stop UK-bound migrants from leaving French beaches by destroying small boats.  The Interior Ministry clarified in a press release that the ban applies to 10 far-right activists from the Raise the Colours movement, which calls for an [...]

Twelve states’ attorneys general sued the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tuesday for conditioning its funding of health programs on compliance with the Trump administration’s policy of recognizing the existence of only two genders. The new HHS condition comes from its new Grants Policy Statement, among other similar policy changes, which sets [...]

Prosecutors in South Korea requested the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed declaration of martial law in December 2024, local media reported. During the final hearing of Yoon’s trial at Seoul Central District Court, prosecutors argued that the former president’s declaration of martial law amounted to insurrection and [...]

A UN expert on Monday commended the new proposals addressing the “longstanding crisis of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in England and Wales,” urging judicial reconsideration of the mechanism. Alice Jill Edwards, the special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, noted the UK House of Lords’ proposals for [...]

French farmers drove over 350 tractors in Paris on Tuesday as a sign of protest against low incomes and the EU-Mercosur partnership and trade agreement. The protest was organized by the National Federation of Agricultural Workers’ Unions (FNSEA). The FNSEA organized Tuesday’s protests as a response to the European Council’s greenlight for the signature of [...]