The UN reported on Friday that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical instability, which have affected global energy prices amid persistent hunger risks in multiple countries. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Food Price Index (FPI) averaged 131.1 points in [...]

Three environmental advocacy groups, represented by Earthjustice, have filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, accusing the DOH of failing to protect tenants, especially children, from lead poisoning by improperly enforcing the state’s Proactive Lead Inspection Law (PLIL),which took effect in November 2025. The suit focuses on two [...]

UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned the recent actions of threats and coercion by the United States against Cuba, asking the Security Council and the General Assembly to discuss these matters urgently. Stressing its contravention of Article 2 of the UN Charter, the experts called out the international community for its lack of action, [...]

A US federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump likely lacks legal authority to demolish and rebuild portions of the White House without congressional approval. The ruling upholds an order that halts above-ground construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, setting up a Supreme Court test of how far a president can go in reshaping [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday reported that Indigenous leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán were released from Guatemalan prison and continue their criminal cases under house arrest, more than 15 months after they were detained over their role in protests that followed the country’s disputed 2023 election period. Pacheco and Chaclán were arrested on April 23, [...]

US President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday directing federal agencies to withhold citizenship from certain children born on US soil, reviving a policy the Supreme Court rejected five weeks earlier and setting up a fresh test of how far a president may narrow a constitutional guarantee by decree. The orders follow the court’s [...]

A divided en banc US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration likely acted unlawfully when it terminated billions of dollars in Biden-era clean-energy grants. The ruling reinstated the core of a district court order that had barred the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from clawing the money back. The [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned Israeli forces in the West Bank for blocking and delaying ambulances carrying Palestinians to hospitals with “appalling regularity”, including forcing a pregnant woman in active labor to deliver on the road in an incident that cost the infant’s life. Bill Van Esveld, associate children’s rights director at Human Rights [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Tom Andrews, on Wednesday stated that Cambodia has multiple opportunities to improve the human rights situation and fulfill its human rights commitments despite persistent challenges such as the border conflict with Thailand and the cyber scam crisis. In a statement concluding his official [...]

Five South American countries on Tuesday announced completion of a two-week joint law enforcement operation targeting environmental crimes across the Amazon rainforest. The campaign, dubbed Operation Green Shield 2026, resulted in over 800 arrests and the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in timber, minerals and livestock. The campaign was coordinated by the International [...]