UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng on Thursday called on states to stop the targeting and killing of health and care workers, and to immediately release all health workers being detained, harassed or tortured. She also urged states to “respect and protect the right to health and its underlying determinants,” including [...]

European Union officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, reaffirmed the EU’s support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday in response to US sanctions on four ICC judges. Slovenia, home to one of the sanctioned judges, has further asked Brussels to use the EU’s Extraterritoriality (Blocking) [...]

In a press briefing Tuesday, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General forewarned that Syria’s health system “remains under severe strain,” leaving almost 16 million people in urgent need of humanitarian support amid continued threats posed by explosive remnants of war (ERWs). Stéphane Dujarric and the UN reported that ERWs have caused over 1,000 casualties since [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday warned of a “major offensive” against press freedom in Peru, noting actions by all three branches of government—including judicial harassment, legislative initiatives and presidential enactments. RSF said the government’s actions have coincided with the murders of several Peruvian journalists in the first four months of 2025, reaching a level [...]

Foreign ministers from Ukraine, the UK, and several European states on Friday announced their support for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.  The countries include at least 37 states in addition to Ukraine. These states will have the power to hold accountable Russian political [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Friday of the “unremitting violence” being committed against civilians in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war despite an active ceasefire that began in the wake of the March 28 earthquakes.  Türk noted that the Myanmar military, or the Tatmadaw, is reported to have launched at least 243 [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Tuesday that the Republic of Malta’s “golden passport” program, where foreign investors could apply to be naturalized as a Maltese citizen for making direct investments, amounted to the commercialization of EU citizenship. This was found to be a violation of Malta’s obligations under Article [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Thursday called on its regional and international partners for “urgent, coordinated action to protect civilians and preserve the Revitalized Peace Agreement. The call comes in response to escalating violence and political instability in the region, where increasing military clashes, reports of indiscriminate attacks on civilian [...]

The US State Department designated former Argentine president Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner and her former minister of planning Julio Miguel De Vido as ineligible to enter the US on Friday, claiming that they had been involved in “significant corruption.” The entry ban affects both Kirchner and De Vido and their immediate families. According to [...]

Women’s rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an “alarming rollback” of fundamental human rights relating to “women’s rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and democratic freedoms” 30 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted. According to Equality Now, important protections for democratic freedoms, [...]