The Australian government on Saturday announced that it had imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four senior officials of Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government, in an effort to curtail the regime’s humanitarian violations against women and girls in the country. In early December 2025, Australia unveiled the autonomous sanctions framework in relation to the dire situation [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday stated that armed groups in Colombia’s southern state of Putumayo have committed gross human rights violations against innocent civilians, with the abuses disproportionately affecting Indigenous communities. HRW Americas director Juanita Goebertus stated: “Armed groups in Putumayo are using the peace talks as an opportunity to tighten their control over [...]

Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting institutional gender-based violence against women human rights activists and journalists in Cuba, calling for an end to the practices. In its report, the rights organization covered incidents occurring between the years 2014 and 2025, finding that Cuban women were routinely subjected to practices such as invasive strip searches, [...]

The Sport & Rights Alliance on Monday called for a comprehensive investigation into the recently uncovered allegations of systemic failures in Brazil’s premier football club that culminated in the deaths of 10 child athletes in a fire in 2019. Executive director of the Sport & Rights Alliance, Andrea Florence, criticized this new development, stating; Despite [...]

UN experts on Thursday urged the Spanish government to ratify a draft bill on “stolen babies” that has been under parliamentary review since 2020, a move that would protect the rights of victims of baby abductions since July 17, 1936. That date marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, which ended with consolidation of [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the increased immigration cooperation between Thai and Vietnamese authorities, warning that it puts Vietnamese refugees at imminent risk of forced removal in violation of international refugee law. HRW said that authorities have detained “scores of Vietnamese nationals” this year, including many individuals who have refugee and asylum status. [...]

England’s High Court of Justice on Friday ruled that Australia-based company BHP Mining was liable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil over a decade ago—which caused the country’s worst environmental disaster—despite the company not owning the dam then. In delivering the long-awaited decision, Justice Finola O’Farrell held that the collapse, which killed [...]

The UN Security Council on Thursday announced its adoption of Resolution 2799, which removes two individuals, including Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, from its sanctions list for figures associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda, a move widely celebrated as presaging a revival of Syria’s economy. Fourteen members of the [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday denounced France’s short-term residency system as a systemic violation of human rights that traps migrant workers in a cycle of discrimination, leaving them particularly vulnerable to labor exploitation, homelessness, and poverty. The research, conducted between April 2024 and September 2025, utilized first-hand experiences from 27 workers of 16 different nationalities, as well [...]

UN experts on Friday called for a swift and effective investigation into the deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history, after a raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela last week killed at least 120 people. The statement warned that the incident is part of a “disturbing pattern” of excessive force. The experts pleaded with the [...]