The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) reported on Saturday a transition towards more inclusive global participation in outer space activities, with the growing involvement of Global South countries, including Ghana, Maldives, Tonga and Côte d’Ivoire. Having long been dominated by technologically advanced countries, outer space is now becoming increasingly accessible [...]

The SANAD Organization for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch urged Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to end the mistreatment and medical neglect of elderly prisoners following Saudi authorities’ refusal to permit a UN expert access to older prisoners during an April visit. Samer Alshumrani, the operations manager at SANAD, expressed concerns over the situation in [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged both Iran and Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” to prevent deeper conflict. The statement comes amid a sudden escalation between the two states following Israel’s attacks on various nuclear installations in Iran. Condemning the Israeli strikes, the statement from the secretary-general’s office expressed concerns about a wider conflagration [...]

The Tokyo High Court on Friday overturned a district court ruling against the former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) which had ordered them to pay compensation of 13 trillion yen ($90 billion) for their failure to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The High Court’s ruling centered around TEPCO [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged China on Tuesday to address the Tiananmen Massacre, including by halting censorship, allowing commemorations, compensating the victims’ families, and holding the perpetrators accountable. This statement comes ahead of the 36th anniversary of the killing of hundreds of peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on June 4, 1989. China researcher [...]

Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that his tenure as a US special government employee at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is over, according to a post on X (formerly Twitter). Musk stated in his post: “As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday protested what it called Qatar’s discriminatory policies against the religious minority Baha’i community. HRW deputy Middle East director at HRW Michael Page stated: The Baha’i community of Qatar has endured decades of government discrimination and intimidation, and authorities have consistently ignored community leaders repeated efforts to engage the government [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called for an investigation into the US air-strike on a migrant detention center in Sa’ada, Yemen, on April 28, that killed and injured dozens of migrants. This follows months of US air-strikes in Yemen that have resulted in a high number of civilian casualties. Amnesty International’s secretary general Agnès Callamard stated: [...]

France filed a lawsuit against Iran at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday, seeking the release of two detained French nationals. The two individuals, a modern literature teacher named Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris, were detained by the Islamic Republic of Iran on May 8, 2022, while visiting the country as [...]

In a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the re-elected Labour government to leverage its key foreign policies to strengthen human rights globally. HRW outlined several actions in the letter that the Australian government should take under four main areas of its foreign policy to promote human [...]