A Russian missile barrage on Kyiv killed at least one person and damaged homes, shops and a metro station early Sunday, in a strike UN officials said breached international humanitarian law protections for civilians and civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian officials said 41 missiles were fired within 40 minutes, one of the heaviest ballistic missile attacks on [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report Monday stating that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face deadly risks from the recent landslides that killed at least 17 and displaced over 3,000. Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at HRW, said the risks to the refugee camps are a result of government policies, stating: Every monsoon is becoming [...]

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) on Monday a condemned the government’s revocation of the credentials of numerous lawyers and notaries. According to testimonies from those affected, there was no notification, legal basis, nor official explanation for the revocation. Many did not know they had been stripped of their licenses until [...]

Amnesty International on Monday condemned the conviction in Türkiye of environmental activist Esra Işık. Amnesty’s deputy regional director for Europe, Esther Major, spoke on the broader impacts of the conviction on the fight to defend the environment: Today’s decision is a devastating blow for Esra Işık and for those engaged in the long struggle to [...]

UN agencies warned on Monday that Afghanistan faces one of the world’s biggest displacement crises. This warning was based on a series of overlapping challenges identified in the country’s latest socioeconomic review by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). UNDP chief Alexander De Croo noted, “In Afghanistan, crises rarely happen one at a time.” In particular, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stared on Monday that over the past years Beijing has restructured Hong Kong’s governance in a way that reduces accountability and tightens social control. A “draconian” national security regime is in place that answers to the Chinese Communist Party leadership rather than Hong Kong’s people. Elaine Pearson, Asia director at HRW, [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Wednesday documenting record level attacks against human rights defenders in 2025. The Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders (HRDs) defines HRDs as “people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights in a peaceful manner.” Preliminary [...]

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in California state court in San Francisco on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to commit suicide. The mother, Kristie Carrier, claims that Alice spoke with ChatGPT repeatedly about her suicidal ideations, but that the system did not flag the conversations. She [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and 14 other press freedom and human rights organizations sent a joint letter to the EU Monday raising concerns over Egypt’s lack of progress on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. As part of the elevation of the EU-Egypt relationship to a Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership in [...]

Malaysia began enforcing new rules on Monday that prevent children younger than 16 from social media. This comes amid growing global concern over youth online safety, but critics have raised concerns over cutting children off from valuable platforms. The new policy includes age verification for existing users. If a user is identified as being under [...]