Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called for the European Union (EU) to urge the government of India to end human rights abuses in a joint statement released Monday ahead of the EU-India Human Rights Dialogue. HRW and Amnesty International, alongside Front Line Defenders, the World Organisation Against Torture and Christian Solidarity Worldwide, called [...]

Steve Akam, a Cameroonian social media activist, is feared to have forcibly disappeared, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) news report issued Tuesday.   Human Rights Watch issued a statement demanding Akam’s whereabouts and advocating his release. Akam was reportedly last seen in a video circulated online on July 21, in which he is being [...]

Free speech organization Article 19 urged the government of Algeria to repeal recent amendments made to the Algerian Penal Code to align with international freedom of expression standards in a statement published on Monday. Article 19, a human rights organization committed to defending the freedom of expression and information, criticized the amendments, which introduced new [...]

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand on Monday to support Māori iwi, Ngāpuhi, to oppose the repeal of section 7AA of the Children’s and Young People’s Well-being Act. Ngāpuhi members traveled from the Northland region of New Zealand to the capital city to protest the repeal and present [...]

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report regarding human rights in the country on Tuesday, providing reports of arbitrary arrest, torture, and killings. UNAMA’s latest report is based on monitoring undertaken by its Human Rights Service and covers the period from April to June 2024. UNAMA Human Rights documented “at least [...]

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) issued a statement on Monday confirming several of its members were contacted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) embassies in their respective countries to “attempt to intimidate and dissuade them” from travelling to Taiwan for the upcoming annual summit held in Taipei, Taiwan. The statement noted that “ight [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and other NGOs signed a joint statement Tuesday urging Azerbaijan to free wrongfully arrested academic Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu and release unjustly imprisoned government critics. Signatories to the statement have followed the case since Ibadoghlu’s arrest on July 23, 2023, and have released several statements advocating for his “immediate and [...]

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi announced Tuesday the imposition of asset-freeze sanctions against Israeli settlers involved in violent acts against Palestinians in the West Bank. Hayashi noted that Japan, alongside the other G7 countries, would exercise sanctions against four Israeli settlers involved in the violent actions. These individuals would be subject to sanctions in [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday that more than 10 million Sudanese, over 20 percent of the population, have been displaced from their homes. The Sudan Mobility Overview, a bi-monthly report, compiled data from the past few months gathered through the IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix. Since the Sudan conflict began in April [...]

Amnesty International criticised the French government’s decision to ban women athletes representing France at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from wearing headscarves in a report released Tuesday. The report stated that the prohibition breaches international human rights laws and said the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) response to calls for lifting the ban was [...]