Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday reported ongoing sexual abuses and threats against Afghan policewomen under both the former government and current Taliban authorities, urging countries that funded Afghanistan’s security forces training programs to resettle these women abroad. A 2012 UN investigation revealed “widespread and frequent” sexual violence and harassment against policewomen in the former [...]

US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday approved the release of redacted evidence against former President Donald Trump in his federal election interference case. The order’s timing is significant; it comes less than one month prior to the 2024 elections, in which Trump is a core candidate, and in the aftermath of a US [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that TD Bank pled guilty to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act for “willful failure to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program.” The guilty plea arises from TD Bank’s fundamental failures to uphold its legal obligations and the harm caused to the public and the US financial system. [...]

The United Nations and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) raised concerns in a press release on Thursday over Guinean civil society activists Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah’s disappearance as experts say they could face torture, mistreatment, and even extra-judicial execution. The UN and ACHPR experts stressed that Guinea authorities’ failure to [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday criticized a recent United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution regarding human rights in Afghanistan, joining other rights groups in claiming that the resolution fails to hold human rights abusers in the country accountable. Amnesty International’s Regional Director for South Asia Smriti Singh criticized the resolution for failing to establish an [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether the murder conviction of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, should be set aside due to a witness having given false testimony in court and state prosecutors having failed to disclose key information about the witness. In 1997, a hotel maintenance worker named Justin Sneed [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Spanish authorities failed in their duty to adequately investigate allegations of human trafficking made by a Nigerian woman. The case, T.V. v. Spain, centered on the victim’s claims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation between 2003 and 2007. The ECHR unanimously found a violation [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday there was no violation of human rights in a corruption case against former  Romanian Member of the European Parliament Adrian Severin. In 2011, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Romania initiated an investigation against Severin, who was suspected of accepting a payment of 100,000 euros for [...]

A majority of Colombia’s National Electoral Council has approved an investigation into the 2022 election campaign of President Gustavo Petro over alleged violation of financing limits, the council confirmed in a statement Tuesday. Nine out of the Council’s 10 magistrates voted in favor of the investigation. The investigation was set in motion by a report [...]

Several international human rights organizations opposed the election of Ethiopia to the UN Human Rights Council through an open letter released on Tuesday. These organizations include CIVICUS, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, the Organization of Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa, and Victim Advocates International, among others. Elections to the [...]