Amnesty International reported Thursday that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are facing a deteriorating humanitarian situation, and are living under life-threatening conditions due to the absence of essential facilities. The rights group called on the belligerents in Myanmar to abide by international law, and urged the international community to provide more humanitarian support. Amnesty found that [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Maltese authorities mistreated Bangladeshi nationals in detention centers, violating the European Convention on Human Rights. The European court granted the applicants compensation for non-pecuniary damages. Additionally, it urged the Maltese government to implement a national law to ensure the protection of the rights of [...]

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Thursday revealed that recent armed clashes between Ethiopian government forces and the Fano militia exposed thousands of Sudanese refugees in the Amhara region to major risks, including of forced deportation, in violation of international humanitarian law. HRW urged Ethiopian authorities and the international community to take all necessary [...]

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, filed an urgent appeal on Monday to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite. The appeal addresses the independence of jurists under the constitutional amendments proposed by the current Pakistani government. Imran Khan’s appeal to the UN regards the government’s plan to amend [...]

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed an application before the Inter-Amercian Court of Human Rights against Paraguay for violation of the right to freedom of expression and judicial guarantees of Paraguayan journalist Aldo Zuccolillo Moscarda, according to a press release published on Monday. The application is related to a case that started in [...]

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Thursday stated that the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, overlooked the European Union’s founding principles and guidelines on human rights in the mission letters she wrote to the European commissioners for the new mandate of 2024 to 2029. The report found that von [...]

The former minister of transport of Singapore, S Iswaran pleaded guilty on Tuesday for receiving gifts worth over S $400,000 ( more than US $300,000) while in office and for obstructing the course of justice, local news agency Channel News Asia (CNA) reported. Iswaran faced charges related to his interactions with two Singaporean businessmen, Ong [...]

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said in a report on Thursday that Russian armed forces’ attacks on energy facilities in Ukraine had devastating effects on the country’s infrastructure and possibly violated international humanitarian law. The UN-mandated mission focused its report on nine waves of attacks on Ukraine’s electric power system that [...]

A United Nations report stated Tuesday that the Venezuelan authorities’ repression of the protests following the July 28 elections reached an unprecedented level of violence, including the commission of human rights violations. The report was conducted by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Republic of Venezuela and examined the human rights situation in the [...]

Three journalist organizations filed a complaint against German authorities with the country’s Federal Constitutional Court, local media reported on Wednesday. The complaint concerns investigators’ wiretapping of phone calls between journalists and climate activists. This constitutional complaint follows two previous verdicts issued by Munich’s District Court and Munich’s Regional Court. The three associations that filed the [...]