Amnesty International accused TikTok of insufficiently protecting vulnerable children and teenagers from psychologically harmful content on Monday, reconfirming 2023 findings that young users interested in mental health-related content are often led to a “rabbit hole” of videos featuring depressive themes and suicidal ideation. It called for the company to move to a rights-respecting business model [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday urged Madagascar authorities to investigate two shootings and two assaults of journalists covering current the political upheaval and protests. CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative, Moussa Ngom, expressed deep concern over the matter: It is unacceptable that journalists who were simply reporting on a major news event were targeted [...]

The University of Arizona (UA) and Vanderbilt University became the latest institutions not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” UA specifically stated that it has not agreed to the compact. Vanderbilt provided an update saying it was looking forward to “continuing the conversation” but that it was only asked to [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday warned that the reinstation of the death penalty in Kyrgyzstan would breach international law obligations. Türk declared that the proposals to reintroduce the death penalty as a response to serious crimes should be discontinued. Kyrgyzstan should focus on “ensuring the effective protection of the law and adequate [...]

A US appeals court order issued Monday granted President Donald Trump and his administration’s request to stay a temporary restraining order that prevented the federalization of 200 members of the Oregon National Guard. However, despite the decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the Trump administration cannot yet deploy National [...]

Amnesty International reported Monday that Tanzanian authorities have “intensified their repression of dissent against the opposition, journalists, civil society and human rights defenders in a deliberate strategy to instill fear, suppress civic engagement and entrench power” ahead of upcoming general elections. Political dissidents have voiced fear and cynicism toward the approaching election, with one individual [...]

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday that strengthens current sanctions on Haiti, extending them for a year, to mitigate persistent organized gang violence in the country. The resolution aimed to reinforce the current territorial arms embargo against Haiti and cut gang-access to weapons and ammunition. The action also introduced new measures, such [...]

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will consider whether a federal law prohibiting gun possession by unlawful drug users violates the Second Amendment, marking the latest firearms dispute to reach the high court following its landmark 2022 ruling that significantly expanded gun rights. The case, US v. Hemani, centers on 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which bars [...]

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) developed a detailed reparations claim in collaboration with the Valvettithurai Citizens’ Committee to the Sri Lankan Office for Reparations, seeking USD $15 million (LKR 4.5 billion) for victims of a 1989 massacre in the Jaffna peninsula, on Friday, where at least 66 civilians were killed and 34 injured [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo Agudo on Friday urged global action on the democratization of water governance and the protection of human rights concerning access to water sources. According to the report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, noted [...]