Thousands joined protests in the Philippines on Sunday, including the Roman Catholic clergy, calling for the resignation of the country’s president and the prosecution of high-level officials over a corruption scandal tied to flood-control infrastructure. Opposition groups and the Catholic Church marched along Manila’s EDSA Avenue, calling for investigations into President Bongbong Marcos and his [...]

Amnesty International on Friday called for Tunisian authorities to revoke the “unjust convictions and sentences” in the conspiracy case against several activists, politicians, and lawyers, calling their detention a blow to human rights. Sara Hashash, the deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, called for an immediate “quash” of [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday announced that a surge of immigration enforcement has begun in Charlotte, North Carolina, targeting “criminal illegal aliens” protected by “sanctuary politicians.” DHS noted in its statement that North Carolina authorities did not honor around 1,400 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “detainers,” which are requests to hold [...]

Amnesty International on Friday stated that South Africa must “seize opportunity to show principled global leadership,” urging action against Israel’s actions in Gaza ahead of the G20 Leaders Summit in Johannesburg. The rights group noted that South Africa must use all its power in the upcoming summit to “compel Israeli authorities” to stop the genocide [...]

A US federal judge has ruled that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment by changing the out-of-office email messages of several employees without their consent. The emails set by the agency included partisan language that blamed the Democratic Party for the government shutdown. In his decision, issued Friday, US District Judge Christopher Cooper [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for Iranian authorities to release an arrested newspaper editor, saying that his detention is part of a deliberate effort to restrict dissenting speech in the country. The CPJ claimed that the arrest of Parviz Sedaghat and several other dissenting voices in Iran is an attempt to [...]

Guayana arrested on Friday the incoming opposition leader on request for extradition by the United States, following an indictment by a Florida court on money-laundering, tax evasion, and gold smuggling. In a statement, the Guyana Attorney-General’s Chambers noted that Azruddin Mohamed allegedly evaded export taxes and royalties on “10,000 kilograms of gold” and attempted the [...]

The South African government said on Friday that the US decision to accept Afrikaners as refugees is concerning and disregards South Africa’s own “constitutional processes.” The statement released by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation noted that the determination by the US president that there is a “white genocide” happening in South Africa is [...]

The Republic of Croatia on Friday reintroduced compulsory military service following fears over the escalating Russia-Ukraine war and destabilization in the Balkans. With an 84-to-11 vote, the Croatian parliament, the Sabor, approved changes to the country’s Defense Act and Armed Forces Service Act, reintroducing basic military training. The new system consists of two months of basic [...]

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 [...]