A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary deportation protections for nearly 3,000 Yemeni nationals living and working in the US. Judge Dale Ho of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, handed down his decision in favor of a group of Yemeni nationals who had sued [...]

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday urged the US and Iran to return to peace negotiations amid rising tensions in the ongoing war, calling for a new “culture of peace” to replace the default recourse to violence whenever conflicts arise. The remarks come on the heels of a very public back-and-forth between the Pope and US [...]

Myanmar’s parliament convened for the first time in five years Monday, marking a formal restoration of legislative proceedings in the country following widely contested national elections held by the military junta government. The reopening of the legislature has raised important legal questions regarding the constitutional framework of governance, the legality of the elections held under [...]

A UN expert on Friday warned of the “gradual erosion of rights” of activists and human rights defenders in Sweden, with ongoing restrictions on their ability to exercise their freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.  Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner [...]

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is set to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a crucial pre-trial hearing next week, a milestone in the long-running international case alleging crimes against humanity linked to Duterte’s administration’s controversial “war on drugs.” The hearing, which will take place from February 23 to 27, has been called [...]

In a briefing delivered to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, welcomed recent initiatives and efforts to bolster stability and improve living conditions for Yemeni citizens amid the country’s long-running conflict, while simultaneously emphasizing the need for continued development and political progress to achieve sustainable [...]

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname announced Thursday the arrest of nearly 200 individuals in a transnational operation to combat illegal gold mining in the Amazon. Backed by Interpol, the European Union through EL PACCTO 2.0, and a Dutch police unit specializing in environmental crime,  “Operation Guyana Shield” involved over 24,500 [...]

The US on Wednesday announced sanctions against four companies operating in Venezuela’s oil sector, declaring four associated oil tankers as blocked property. In the statement released by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US government alleges that some of these vessels are part of the “shadow fleet” serving Venezuelan President Nicolás [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday released a statement calling upon authorities in Guinea-Bissau to bring an immediate end to arbitrary detentions and growing instances of intimidation in the country, warning that the reported abuses undermine fundamental freedoms and may in some cases amount to enforced disappearance. The [...]

A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday accused British soldiers of decades of sexual misconduct, violence, human rights violations, and environmental harm during their tenure in the country. These accusations emerged following a two-year inquiry by the parliamentary Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations (DIFRC), which culminated in a 94-page report detailing alleged assaults, maimings, [...]