Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged the Syrian transitional government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to protect civilians and comply with the international human rights law following renewed fighting in northeast Syria. The group warned that civilians have borne the brunt of the escalation and discouraged both sides from obstructing humanitarian assistance [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Kazakhstan to immediately drop criminal charges against 19 activists affiliated with the local Atajurt human rights movement who face up to 10 years in prison for participating in a peaceful protest near the nation’s border with China. Marie Struthers, Eastern Europe and Central Asia director at Amnesty International, condemned [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated on Sunday in Port Sudan that Sudanese civilians experience “horror and hell” as the country’s civil war approaches three-years, condemning use of child soldiers and diversion of resources into advanced weaponry, including drones. Commissioner Volker Türk criticized the practice of procuring weapons with humanitarian funds and further [...]

Japan on Sunday condemned North Korea’s launch of multiple ballistic missiles in a press conference, stating that the tests constitute clear violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions and pose a serious threat to public safety and regional security. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, North Korea launched several ballistic missiles from an [...]

Italian authorities on Saturday arrested nine individuals on suspicion of raising more than €7 million for Hamas by misrepresenting the funds as humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. The arrests follow a counter-terrorism and financial crimes investigation jointly conducted by Italy’s anti-terror police and the Guardia di Finanza, launched shortly after the Hamas attacks in [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday urged Indian authorities to protect Washington Post columnist and investigative journalist Rana Ayyub and her family after she received multiple threats of violence from an unidentified caller who appeared to know her home address. “The threats of violence made against Rana Ayyub and her father from an [...]

The United Nations observed the International Day for People of African Descent on Sunday, with leaders urging the global community to advance justice, dignity, and equality. Secretary-General António Guterres praised the “extraordinary” contributions of African peoples, while stressing that the legacies of slavery and colonialism continue to cast “long shadows” in the form of systemic [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday reported that Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against west and central African migrants and asylum seekers. The 142-page report, titled “They Accused Me of Trying to Go to Europe: Migration Control Abuses and EU Externalization in Mauritania,” documents torture, rape, arbitrary [...]

The public prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally requested the death penalty for former president Joseph Kabila on Friday during proceedings before the High Military Court in Kinshasa. The military auditor general, Lieutenant General Lucien René Likulia, argued before the court that the former president should face capital punishment for his role [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on torture Alice Jill Edwards, along with other human rights experts, delivered a dossier Thursday to the Russian Federation on sexual torture allegations, detailing the cases of 10 Ukrainian civilians abused in occupied regions of Ukraine, including Kherson, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. Edwards commented: “These separate allegations, capturing the experiences of four women [...]