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 [...]

Refugees International on Saturday condemned a new US agreement that diverts funds originally slated for economic development to Costa Rica deportation efforts. The organization denounced the deal as a dangerous extension of “outsourced” immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, claiming it is a “misuse of US funding” and urging authorities to redirect resources towards strengthening [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for civilians. His statement came in light of the intensifying hostilities between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Türk expressed grave concern over [...]

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) raised  serious concerns Thursday about prison conditions and psychiatric care practices across Europe. The 34th General Report highlights issues pertaining to prison overcrowding, the continued influence of informal prisoner hierarchies, and the excessive use of pharmacological treatments [...]