The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday praised the recent advisory opinion on the climate crisis from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a “landmark step forward,” urging states to take meaningful action through legislation, policymaking and international cooperation. The IACHR released Advisory Opinion 32/25 on Thursday, [...]

The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) expressed concern Friday after visiting Peru, where it observed serious issues, such as prison overcrowding and lengthy pretrial detention. It also noted a controversial new law that treats 16- and 17-year-old juveniles as adults within the penal system. The Congress of the Republic of Peru recently [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on France’s National Assembly to include access to education and other core economic and social rights for children in a recent emergency bill for the French overseas department of Mayotte, an island off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Elvire Fondacci, an advocacy officer at HRW, [...]

UN human rights experts on Friday called on the Tanzanian government to immediately cease the use of enforced disappearances. They expressed grave concern over a growing pattern of violence, repression, and abuse in Tanzania targeting opposition members, youth leaders and human rights advocates. In Friday’s call to action, the experts “urge Tanzanian authorities to stop [...]

New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three Māori lawmakers for staging a protest that included performing the haka, a traditional Māori dance, in opposition to a controversial bill. Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, who are the co-leaders of the Te Pāti Māori party, were suspended without pay for 21 days following a vote by a [...]

Amnesty International reported on Friday that women participating in protests against the government in Georgia have been subjected to intimidation, harassment, and gender-based physical and psychological violence by state authorities. In addition to searches of detained protestors, the rights group stated there has been a growing tendency of arbitrary house and office searches, stop-and-search practices [...]

Italy’s price comparison platform Moltiply filed a €2.97 billion damages claim against Alphabet’s Google search engine on Friday, alleging anti-competitive conduct and abuse of dominance that favored Google Shopping between 2010 and 2017. Moltiply alleged that its subsidiary 7Pixel, which operates the comparison site Trovaprezzi, was harmed by Google’s self-preferencing practices, which abused its market [...]

A UN official raised concerns on Wednesday over North Korea’s “troubling pattern” of weapons testing, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and intermediate-range hypersonic missiles. UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari warned that the persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs defies international law and “continue to undermine the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.” [...]

UN experts on Wednesday condemned the enforced disappearance and apparent summary execution of some 100  individuals in Mali. The experts stated that the unlawful killings may amount to war crimes and that the enforced disappearance may constitute crimes against humanity. The experts found that the Malian authorities have violated the right to life by failing to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Jordanian authorities forcibly evicted and demolished residences in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without following proper procedures, as part of an urban development project. The project’s stated goals include improving living conditions, managing urban growth, and recovering the costs of upgrading and expanding infrastructure facilities through [...]