Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday highlighting a general decline in human rights around the globe since Donald Trump took office, due to a rise of authoritarianism and corporate greed emboldened by the Trump administration’s policies. The organization noted both positive and negative trends in the sphere of international justice, applauding the enforcement of [...]

Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Council of Europe, Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, on Friday denounced the recent demolition of Roma houses in the Zaharna Fabrika area of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in spite of an interim order from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that ordered Bulgaria to stop the forced evictions. According to NGO [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held on Tuesday that the Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria did not violate an applicant’s right to a fair trial and judicial impartiality. Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court decided the case brought by Mihail Doynov and was simultaneously a defendant, as Doynov’s legal challenge had alleged that the court [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called for the release of imprisoned Uyghur activist Valijon Kalonov, who has been forcibly detained in a Uzbekistan psychiatric hospital since 2021. Kalonov was initially detained on charges of using social media in a way that threatens public safety, and publicly insulting the president of Uzbekistan. During his trial, [...]

At the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and several other rights groups called for the release of imprisoned rights defenders in Venezuela, noting the prevalence of enforced disappearances used to silence opposition. Venezuela’s Bolívar Law gives the state wide discretion to impose prison sentences of 25-30 years [...]

HRW reported Monday that Germany’s social security system inadequately protects women from poverty, breaching the state’s constitutional obligation to ensure that taxpayers can afford to pay for “necessary living expenses.” According to HRW, women in Germany are overrepresented among the population that is at risk of poverty. Women make up two-thirds of low-wage workers and [...]

UNRWA released a report Sunday on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories from February 26 to March 4, in which the agency demanded that Israel lift its Gaza blockade to allow essential humanitarian access in compliance with its international humanitarian law (IHL) obligations. The report also noted that the ongoing Israeli Defense Forces [...]

Rights organizations on Tuesday called on the European Commission to fulfill its legal obligation to monitor EU-funded migration facilities to ensure that human rights are respected, criticizing the automatic detention of migrants upon arrival at the Greece-operated Samos Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC), including children traveling alone. Authorities at Samos CCAC allegedly subject migrants to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a Monday release, said that a new law in El Salvador, which transfers incarcerated children to the adult prison system, violates international juvenile justice standards. This comes amidst the conviction of more than a thousand children on allegedly tenuous charges including unlawful gang association, in which the state is accused [...]

The former Prime Minister of Mauritius was released on bail Sunday after being charged with money laundering by the Mauritius Financial Crimes Commission (FCC). Pravind Jugnauth was arrested along with three other suspects in a raid in which police seized 114 million Mauritius rupees (US$2.5M). The FCC objected to Jugnauth’s release, but the magistrate held [...]