Amnesty International on Monday cautioned against what it called a “dangerously premature” push to repatriate Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, warning that repatriation under existing conditions in northern Rakhine State “could be catastrophic. The rights group warned of harrowing conditions that could face the returning Rohingya—a predominantly Muslim ethnic group from Myanmar’s Rakhine State [...]

The European Commission on Friday fined Google $3.46 billion (€2.95 billion) for abusing its dominance in the online advertising technology sector, marking one of the largest antitrust penalties ever imposed on a tech company in Europe. The commission found that Google illegally distorted competition by favoring its own ad exchange service, AdX, to the detriment [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday strongly urged the US to immediately stop transferring immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, warning that they face “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that may amount to ill-treatment. According to interviews conducted by HRW of immigrants formerly held at the facility, US officials did not [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a news release on Thursday condemned the expulsion of Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar “without rights protections.” The news release also alleges that the Indian authorities have “arbitrarily detained several hundred more” Rohingya refugees while also “mistreating some of them.” HRW said the nationwide push began in May, when [...]

The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Nowhere to Return: Israel’s Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon,” documents the demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures between October 2024 [...]

India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed that canines picked up in the country’s National Capital Region (NCR) be sterilized, vaccinated, dewormed, and then released back to the localities from which they were taken, in line with the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023. A three-judge bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria [...]

A UN expert criticized the US government on Wednesday for its rollback of sanctions against entities supplying weapons and other support to the Myanmar military junta, finding the move “unconscionable.” Special Rapporteur for Myanmar Tom Andrews explained in his statement that the persons delisted by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye.  HRW welcomed President Ndayishimiye’s appointment as Sahel envoy, and emphasized several regional and country-specific human rights concerns, stating that human rights, civilian protection, accountability and the [...]

Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, called on the Irish government to move forward with the Occupied Territories bill, which would prohibit imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In support of the bill, Callamard stated: The bill would be a powerful, much-needed tool for international justice and must be [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called for an urgent ceasefire on Tuesday, following a series of large-scale Russian missile and drone attacks on densely populated Ukrainian cities. The attacks have resulted in significant civilian casualties and damage to protected infrastructure, reinforcing concerns over violations of international humanitarian law. In [...]