Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a news release on Thursday condemned the expulsion of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar “without rights protections.” The news release also alleges that the Indian authorities have “arbitrarily detained several hundred more” Rohingya refugees while also “mistreating some of them.” HRW said the nationwide push began in May, when [...]

Amnesty International on Friday lauded the Central African Republic’s ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, also known as the Maputo Protocol. Amnesty International Senior Researcher Abdoulaye Diarra praised the move as a “welcome and long-awaited step in promoting and protecting women [...]

A senior UN official voiced concern Thursday about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, stating that approximately 30 million—nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population—are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance as the civil war persists. During a press briefing in New York, the director of operations and advocacy for the UN Office for the Coordination of [...]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that state authority is collapsing in Haiti as gang violence spreads across the country, disrupting daily life and forcing families to flee their homes. Guterres said that the ongoing armed conflict has created a humanitarian and displacement crisis, leaving six million people in need of [...]

A US federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday ordered that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador native whose wrongful deportation has been the subject of numerous lawsuits and federal court rebukes this year, is not to be deported from the US as cases involving him wind their way through the courts. US District Judge Paula [...]

US Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook brought a lawsuit against President Donald Trump Thursday, contending that he illegally tried to remove her. Cook brought the suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia after Trump attempted to fire her on Monday based on an allegation that Cook lied on a mortgage [...]

South Africa’s Equality Court ruled Thursday that Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema’s statements at a rally on October 16, 2022, constituted hate speech, finding that they were a direct call to violence based on race and political affiliation. The court emphasized that these statements were not metaphorical or political commentary but “clear exhortations [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Thursday calling on the Lebanese authorities to immediate release Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been held in pre-trial detention for 10 years. HRW reported that Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was detained by Internal Security Forces in December 2015 “on apparently unsubstantiated allegations that he [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday reported that Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against west and central African migrants and asylum seekers. The 142-page report, titled “They Accused Me of Trying to Go to Europe: Migration Control Abuses and EU Externalization in Mauritania,” documents torture, rape, arbitrary [...]

107 rights organizations signed an open letter published Thursday that implored the UN Human Rights Council to establish an international mechanism to hold Afghanistan accountable for past and ongoing human rights violations. Organizations argued that the UN Human Rights Council has failed to institute measures to address international crimes committed within the country, particularly under [...]