Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Kenyan authorities to end the apparent harassment of Otsieno Namwaya, the organization’s associate Africa director, over his work documenting rights abuses in the country. According to HRW, from August 23 to 25, witnesses observed groups of plainclothes officers suspected to be from the  Operation Support Unit of the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday strongly urged the US to immediately stop transferring immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, warning that they face “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that may amount to ill-treatment. According to interviews conducted by HRW of immigrants formerly held at the facility, US officials did not [...]

UN human rights experts have called on Pakistan to suspend its planned deportation of millions of Afghan refugees, set to commence on September 1. They warn that the policy violates international law and endangers returnees. The deportations, under Pakistan’s “Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan,” now also target Afghan refugees holding Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, many [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a bill redrawing the state’s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five US House seats held by Democrats to Republicans. The Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 4 with an 88-52 vote on August 20, and the Texas [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday held that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) likely acted unlawfully when it tried to roll back Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. While the decision marks a legal victory for advocates and TPS recipients, it remains largely symbolic for [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a prior court’s ruling on Friday that found President Donald Trump’s recent tariffs, specifically the trafficking and reciprocal tariffs, exceeded the authority delegated to the president. In its decision, the court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) does not authorize a president [...]

A group of 45 UN human rights experts reaffirmed on Thursday that gender must remain central to the fight for equality and human rights worldwide. The statement was signed by UN special procedure mandate holders from various countries, jointly emphasizing that “binary conceptions of sex” result in an incomplete picture of the “social and cultural factors [...]

UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian population. The UN received reports citing several individuals, including one child, who have been forcibly disappeared while visiting food aid distribution centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [...]

The UK Court of Appeal found on Friday that the High Court’s temporary ban on asylum seekers being housed in a hotel in Epping runs the risk of encouraging further violent protests, as the lower court judge weighed them as a factor in favor of granting the injunction. The injunction is now overturned. The Court [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Friday in a 6-3 ruling, finding that she had acted in violation of constitutional ethics provisions. The court’s final ruling, which is not subject to appeal under Thai law, immediately terminated Shinawatra’s position under Section 170 of the Constitution. The ruling results in the immediate dissolution [...]