The Council of the EU on Monday announced that existing sanctions will extend to 28 new individuals for participation in “ongoing internal repression and human rights violations in Belarus”.  These sanctions restrict listed individuals or entities from traveling to or within the EU and forbid EU citizens and companies from making funds available to these [...]

The government of Tanzania is implementing policies intended to force Maasai residents to relocate outside of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. HRW reported that the government has utilized tactics such as cutting essential public services “including schools and health centres,” banning residents from growing crops, [...]

A US federal court dismissed a Republican National Committee (RNC) challenge on Sunday to a Mississippi law that allows validly cast mail-in votes to be counted for up to five business days after election day. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi decided that since there is [...]

An ongoing march to parliament organized by young people over corruption in the Uganda government led to the arrests of protestors on Tuesday. Joel Ssenyonyi, the leader of the parliamentary opposition, also alleged in a Ugandan parliament speech that police have used excessive force against protestors. The Associated Press (AP) has reported a heavy police [...]

Police in Uganda allegedly surrounded and raided the opposition National Unity Platform’s (NUP) headquarters on Monday ahead of a planned march to parliament on Tuesday that aims to protest corruption under the present regime. The NUP reported that the roads to the party’s headquarters had been blocked, and “several leaders have been violently arrested.” The [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to compel the Biden administration to withdraw military, diplomatic, and financial support from Israel on Monday. The court ruled that the case was “not justiciable under the political question doctrine.” This doctrine, based on the separation of powers [...]

Israel’s airforce conducted a strike on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’s (UNRWA) Abu Oraiban School building in Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday. The strike killed at least 17 people, according to sources from Gaza’s civil defense agency, quoted by Al Jazeera. Israel stated that the strike was directed against “terrorists [...]

China’s government released a report on Monday that claims a grounded Philippines warship at Second Thomas Shoal caused extensive damage to the shoal’s coral reef ecosystem. China claims a significant portion of the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines, including the Second Thomas Shoal. The report, authored by China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, claims that [...]

A court in Quito, Ecuador ruled that the Machángara River, which runs through the city, possesses rights making the municipal government of Quito responsible for pollution that occurs, a local civic advocacy group reported on Friday. The court recognized that since the river is alive, it is subject to rights under the Constitution of Ecuador. [...]

The World Benchmarking Alliance found that 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies do not meet social expectations relating to human rights, in its report published on Tuesday. The Alliance called on policymakers and investors to ensure companies are being held accountable for protecting labour rights. The report found that companies which are [...]