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UN human rights experts on Wednesday raised alarm over reports of torture, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention of members of Iran’s Bahá’í religious minority amid the ongoing US-Iran war. The UN experts say that approximately 57 Bahá’ís are currently detained or imprisoned in Iran. They report claims of arbitrary and incommunicado detention, physical and psychological [...]

A UN expert warned on Tuesday that policies on border protection and migration cannot nullify the absolute ban on returning a person to torture as set out in international law. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, published a position paper on the principle [...]

For the first time since Congress created it in 1996, the Justice Department has invoked the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), a specialized tribunal that may consider classified evidence a respondent never sees, and order a noncitizen accused of terrorism removed. What the statute does not say is who decides whether that removal will deliver [...]

The Gambia’s Supreme Court is weighing whether the country’s 2015 ban on female genital mutilation is unconstitutional — a challenge brought by religious traditionalists who say the prohibition violates their rights to culture and religion. The outcome in Almamy Gibba and Others v. Attorney General will test whether a cultural practice can claim constitutional protection [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged member states of the African Union to continue providing political, legal and financial support to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court), to enable the Court to carry out its mandate more effectively across the continent. In light of the Court’s 20th anniversary, which fell on July [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday released a joint report documenting deaths, beatings, medical neglect, and conditions that may amount to enforced disappearance at the immigration detention camp at the US Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The 84-page report, titled “You’re Only Getting Out Deported or [...]

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Tuesday that the Court may exercise jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri. El Hishri is alleged to have been a senior official of the armed group known as the Special Deterrence Force. He is charged with 17 counts [...]

A UN Syria inquiry on Wednesday called on the international community to address Syria’s detainee and human rights crisis, which has persisted even after the downfall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, pressing the new authorities to account for thousands still missing, ensure fair trials, and put an end to the violence that continues to [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday filed an application to bring proceedings against Rwanda over decades of war crimes and violence perpetrated in the DRC’s east. The Congolese government filed the case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ principal court for disputes between states. The DRC accused Rwanda [...]

On Friday, May 29, Ghana’s Parliament considered and passed the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill 2025, after its re-introduction. The bill had previously passed in 2024 but failed to become law due to a lack of assent from the then president. As a result, it lapsed with the Eighth Parliament and required reintroduction and passage by the Ninth [...]