A group of 20 human rights organizations said on Monday that Bulgarian authorities should suspend plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia and allow his resettlement to a third country. Al-Khalidi has been a human rights defender and prisoners’ rights advocate for over a decade. After fleeing Saudi Arabia in [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday called on the international community to resist mounting attacks on gender justice. The group reiterated its call on states to recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2025. The statement by the group’s secretary-general, Agnès Callamard, was released against [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged for imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for an end to the organization’s decades-long insurgency against Türkiye to serve as a catalyst to end the systematic misuse of terrorism charges against government critics in Türkiye. Öcalan founded the PKK in 1978. The party waged an [...]
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Republika Srpska (RS) president Milorad Dodik to one year in prison, imposing a six-year ban on his political participation within the RS due to his frequent calls for Republika Srpska’s independence. The court convicted Dodik for failure to comply with the decisions of the High Representative [...]
Amnesty International Taiwan, along with six other civil groups, will present to President Lai Ching-Te a joint statement calling on the government to implement legal reforms on February 25 at the 13th RightsCon, to be held in Taipei. The joint statement encompasses various human rights impacted by the digital technologies. These are outlined in the [...]
The United States on Thursday declined to co-sponsor a draft UN General Assembly resolution marking three years since the invasion of Ukraine, according to a source for Interfax-Ukraine. The resolution, sponsored by more than 50 countries and scheduled for a vote on February 24, condemns Russian aggression and reaffirms a commitment “to the sovereignty, independence, [...]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released a report on Friday detailing a surge in violent attacks on journalists in Bangladesh, urging the country’s government to take action. The report denounces the widespread attacks on journalists that have escalated since the beginning of February, highlighting systematic violations of the constitutional rights of media professionals that have been [...]
