A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated the law by deploying military forces to conduct crowd control and arrests in Los Angeles, marking a significant legal rebuke of the administration’s domestic use of armed forces. In June, the president deployed military personnel to Los Angeles in a bid to quell protests [...]
Amnesty International on Monday released a report finding that X (formerly Twitter) allowed for the spread of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV) against LGBTQ+ people in Poland. The report charges that Elon Musk relaxed X’s Community Guidelines regarding the content allowed on the platform after taking ownership. Consequently, X has become “awash with content constituting TfGBV,” [...]
A coalition of rights groups on Monday urged the UK to incorporate human rights protections before signing a trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), amid documentation of abuses faced by migrant workers across these countries. In a joint statement, the groups urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to include human rights conditions in the [...]
A US federal judge on Sunday ordered a temporary stop to President Donald Trump’s administration plans to send more than 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala. The emergency order, issued by US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, DC, came at 4 AM because of exigent circumstances. Attorneys said that 10 children were already on [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on modern slavery released a statement on Friday protesting that forms of modern slavery continue to exist in Brazil, including the exploitation of children and domestic workers, Indigenous, African, and Quilombola peoples, sex workers, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Expert Tomoya Obokata made the announcement to conclude his visit to Brazil. [...]
The European Union (EU) urged the US government on Saturday to reverse its decision to block members of the Palestinian Authority (PA) from obtaining visas. Kaja Kallas, the high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, remarked during a ministers’ meeting in Copenhagen: “In light of the existing agreements between the UN and its host [...]
Amnesty International called on the Syrian government Friday to undertake concrete measures, including a nationwide search for thousands who disappeared under the Assad regime, to deliver truth, justice, and reparations for the victims and their families. A new report published by the human rights organization alleges that thousands of individuals are still struggling to uncover [...]
Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Kenyan authorities to end the apparent harassment of Otsieno Namwaya, the organization’s associate Africa director, over his work documenting rights abuses in the country. According to HRW, from August 23 to 25, witnesses observed groups of plainclothes officers suspected to be from the Operation Support Unit of the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday strongly urged the US to immediately stop transferring immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, warning that they face “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that may amount to ill-treatment. According to interviews conducted by HRW of immigrants formerly held at the facility, US officials did not [...]
UN human rights experts have called on Pakistan to suspend its planned deportation of millions of Afghan refugees, set to commence on September 1. They warn that the policy violates international law and endangers returnees. The deportations, under Pakistan’s “Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan,” now also target Afghan refugees holding Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, many [...]
