The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that the Cypriot authorities violated the human and privacy rights of a British female victim by failing to conduct a proper investigation into her rape allegations. The court concluded that “certain biases concerning women in Cyprus” prevented the effective protection of women’s rights as victims of gender-based [...]

Amnesty International urged Mozambique’s FRELIMO-led government on Thursday to launch investigations into alleged severe human rights violations committed amid the ongoing post-election crackdown and ensure effective reparation to victims and survivors. Violent confrontations between protesters and security forces broke out due to the announcement by Mozambique’s Constitutional Council that FRELIMO candidate Daniel Chapo had won [...]

The UN warned Thursday that Sudan is facing famine after “intense fighting caused the World Food Programme to suspend operations in North Darfur.” “Five more areas could face famine in the next three months, and a further 17 are at risk,” warned the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, in a speech in Geneva. [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Republika Srpska (RS) president Milorad Dodik to one year in prison, imposing a six-year ban on his political participation within the RS due to his frequent calls for Republika Srpska’s independence. The court convicted Dodik for failure to comply with the decisions of the High Representative [...]

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Thursday that the alarming human rights situation in Haiti requires immediate international assistance to save the population from a serious human rights crisis. The OHCHR emphasized that the only way to address the situation is to consolidate the UN’s efforts to restore [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China on Thursday. The group stated that repeated requests to access the detained Uyghurs and secure assurances against forced returns were ignored, violating domestic and international human rights laws. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk described the [...]

Kenya’s High Court of Garissa ruled on Wednesday that the Kenyan government’s refusal to issue identification documents to ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals was unconstitutional and infringed on their rights. Kenyan NGO Haki-na-Sheria issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the judgment on its official X account. The NGO stated that the High Court ordered the Kenyan [...]

Conservative advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the “criminal mental state” requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the proliferation of laws that require no specific mental state as contributing to over-criminalization in the country. Right on Crime contends that “there has been an [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of prominent refugee rights lawyer and former chair of the organization’s Türkiye branch, Taner Kılıç, following an eight-year judicial process but expressed concern over continued repression of human rights activists. In its statement, the human rights organization said that Kılıç’s case exemplifies the Turkish authorities’ attempts to criminalize [...]

US Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday blocked a district court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that implemented a midnight deadline to release over a billion US dollars in funding for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The TRO had originally been granted by Judge Amir Ali from the US District Court for the District [...]