Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported on threats to basic rights posed by China’s new cybercrime bill, and urged the concerned governments to press China to scrap the draft law. China’s Ministry of Public Security published the proposed Draft Law on Cybercrime Prevention and Control in January, and while it addresses legitimate concerns—criminal online activities, [...]

At the 2026 Green Growth Summit on Monday, UN experts took the opportunity to promote renewable energy in the midst of the global oil panic, urging Europe to not miss an opportunity to invest in green energy. Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, reiterated the accessible and stable aspects [...]

The UN office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published a press release Tuesday on the impact that the conflict in the Middle East is having on the civilians globally, warning of direct and indirect harms created by continued military action. “The strikes against vital civilian infrastructure in the Middle East—as well as the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Israel to halt the use of white phosphorus munitions, reporting their use over civilian homes in Yohmor, a southern town in Lebanon, on March 3. HRW’s accusation of white phosphorus use is backed by seven images of airburst chemical munitions, which the rights group verified and geolocated. In one [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday claimed that Australia’s offshore processing and resettlement program is cost-inefficient and argued it potentially violates international law, advocating for an investment in community-based alternatives. In a statement to the Australian Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, which has investigated the nation’s offshore resettlement policies since November 2025, HRW wrote: [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday protested the targeting of Vitaliy Shabunin, co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), by Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). Shabunin, “a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of government corruption,” recently criticized the Ministry of Defense and the president over weapon procurement [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday classified the Kazakhstan Foreign Affairs Ministry’s withholding of accreditation from 16 Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Kazakh service journalists as a “blatant” attack on independent media. The Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch, Hugh Walliamson, expressed concern about the evident escalation of stifled independent voices in [...]

A Moscow court fined the bookstore Falalster 800,000 rubles (approximately $10,000) and its founder, Boris Kupriyanov, 100,000 rubles (approximately $1,300) on the charges of LGBTQA+ “propaganda,” according to local media. Charges were reportedly based on the bookstore selling books like More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera, Satanic Feminism by Per Faxneld, Fruit of Knowledge by [...]

The UK announced new sanctions Friday against Russia, directed at three units of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU and 18 military intelligence officers “responsible for spreading chaos and disorder on Putin’s orders” and malicious cyber activity over many years, according to local media. According to the UK, the GRU “routinely uses cyber and information [...]

A Russian military court sentenced a prisoner to an additional six years of imprisonment and a fine of 49,000 rubles (approximately $600) on the charges of public calls to terrorism and the spread of “war fakes,” according to local media. The charges against the prisoner, a man named Andrey Voronin, are based on his conversations [...]