Amnesty International on Thursday warned that the abrupt suspension of US foreign aid has put human rights and millions of lives at risk globally by halting critical programs such as the provision of essential health care, food security and humanitarian support for people in extremely vulnerable situations globally, including women, girls, survivors of sexual violence, [...]

Amnesty International voiced its support on Friday for a report issued by the UN Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), stating that it “fully supports” a more detailed draft UN declaration seeking to address the “respect, protection and fulfilment” of human rights for people of [...]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles said Wednesday that migrants deported from the US could be held in Costa Rica for four to six weeks before being sent to their home countries. This comes after the Costa Rican government announced its intent to collaborate with the US in the repatriation of undocumented immigrants originally from [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a Thursday letter to stop the Malian junta’s crackdown on political opposition and dissent. The group’s call comes as Mali is faced with many cases of forced disappearances or persons detained for politically motivated reasons. According to HRW, Mali’s military junta [...]

The UN Human Rights Council established on Friday an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of inquiry into atrocities committed by all parties to the armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The resolution was passed by consensus during the thirty-seventh special session, which was held at the DRC’s request. With a resurgence [...]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday declared the Supreme Court decision in the matter of trying armed civilians in a military court martial to be “wrong,” stating that the method reinforces the civilian judicial system in defending the lives of people against criminals armed with guns. In the decision, the court declared trials of civilians [...]

Amnesty International urged Angola authorities on Wednesday to hold police officers accountable for injuring and killing people during protests between November 2020 and June 2023. The organization has also lamented the delay of justice for the victims of human rights violations. A report published by Amnesty International uncovered the use of excessive and unnecessary force [...]

The Nicaraguan National Assembly on Friday unanimously approved  constitutional reforms proposed by President Daniel Ortega. These reforms change the national charter by creating the position of “co-president” and increasing the president’s term, among other things. The reforms will see the the president and the  president’s spouse become co-presidents. The presidential term will be extended to [...]

The federal police of Brazil on Thursday indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro alongside 36 other individuals accused of crimes of violent abrogation of the Democratic State of Law, coup d’état, and criminal organization in an attempt to keep the incumbent president in power after the 2022 elections results. The police said that the list of [...]

The Federal Court of Justice in Germany ruled on Monday that users of the social network Facebook, whose data were exposed in a “scraping” incident in April 2021, may be entitled to compensation. The claim arose from a suit against Meta, the operator of Facebook, in which a plaintiff sued the company for failing to [...]