Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday denounced recent threats to attack infrastructure made by both the United States and Iran, amidst heightened hostilities between the two nations and the breakdown of their ceasefire. HRW condemned the threats and warned that the targets of the threats could be civilian infrastructure. HRW urged the international community to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday decried the intensified wave of settler violence in the West Bank and called on the international community to take action. According to HRW, which conducted interviews and reviewed recordings of the incident, “40 to 50 settlers, including children, approached Tal from the east” and attacked several homes on July [...]

The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday  released a mid-year crime trends report which illustrated that homicides in large US cities fell by 18 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, effectively putting the country on track for its lowest annual homicide rate in over a century. [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Zambian authorities to drop all charges against journalist MacPherson Mukuka, and release him from detention following his arrest for posting a private conversation involving public servants on social media. Mukuka, a journalist with the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), was arrested on July 17 for recording a private conversation between [...]

A group of federal employees and their union on Thursday requested that a federal court temporarily bar Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins from sending official communications that “proselytize, promote, or favor any particular religion” to US Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees while their constitutional challenge proceeds. The motion for a preliminary injunction was filed in [...]

UN experts on Thursday decried the continuation of hostilities between the US and Iran, warning that the resumed conflict undermines peace and greatly increases civilian suffering in the region. Human rights authorities condemned the strikes and counter-strikes and emphasized the impact on civilians. Strikes on vessels operating within the Strait of Hormuz are “endangering civilian [...]

The European Commission on Friday issued preliminary findings that TikTok failed to meet child-safety requirements under the Digital Services Act (DSA) by allowing minors’ accounts and content to remain too widely visible, including to adults and people without TikTok accounts. The commission said the current settings could expose children to unwanted contact, cyberbullying, and predatory [...]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores appeared in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday, where Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein set a June 1, 2027 trial date at the request of lawyers for both the prosecution and the defense. Under the now approved schedule, the defense will file requests in early September to challenge [...]

Five UN specialized agencies reported on Tuesday that global hunger rates declined for the third consecutive year in 2025, but the distribution of these improvements remained uneven across regions, and also noted the persistence of significant impediments to progress due to energy shocks and armed conflicts. The UN agencies released a report entitled “The State [...]

A coalition of British Columbia rights groups on Thursday urged the Canadian province to ensure that voters in custody can exercise their right to vote. This statement comes as the pre-campaign period of the province’s 2026 general local elections begins. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, and Prisoners’ [...]