UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters.   In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]

The UN warned on Monday that armed groups in Haiti are adapting their reprisals against civilians as security forces intensify their operations, which has exacerbated the security crisis and led to the indefinite postponement of legislative elections that had been scheduled for December 13. UN experts on Haiti presented a briefing to the UN Security [...]

The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would revisit the issue of race as a factor in school admissions, often called affirmative action, three years after striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions. This time, the Court will hear a challenge to the admissions policies at a competitive “magnet” middle school in [...]

The UN on Monday condemned Israeli settlers for carrying out at least 160 attacks against Palestinians during the current olive harvest on the West Bank, damaging property, and conducting demolitions that forcibly displaced 96 Palestinians. The wave of attacks come a year after the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip was brokered. Commenting on the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks from the death penalty. The justices denied petitions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi, and a separate petition from [...]

Amnesty International reported on Monday that authorities in Kenya committed human rights violations against protesters between 2023 and 2025, using restrictive measures to suppress youth-led demonstrations in response to a deteriorating economic situation in the country. In a report documenting events and popular protests in Kenya between 2023 and 2025, Amnesty International revealed that Kenyan [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Department of Justice v. McNutt, a challenge to federal restrictions on home distilling that tests the scope of the constitutional authority of Congress to protect tax revenue. The case asks whether prohibiting the production of distilled spirits in homes and adjoining sheds or yards is a [...]

Amnesty International said Friday in a statement that Azerbaijan authorities must reverse school clothing rules that bar pupils and teachers wearing hijabs in classrooms, and must release people detained solely for peaceful protest. Commenting on the clothing restrictions and detention of protesters, Marie Struthers, Amnesty’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director, stated: Denying girls access [...]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday warned that the intensifying conflict in Yemen has cut off life-saving aid to approximately 800,000 people due to severely restricted access to the city of Taizz and other conflict zones. As frontlines shift, roads are blocked, and conflict intensifies, El-Khidir Daloum, WFP representative in Yemen, commented on [...]