UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday criticized recently adopted changes to Türkiye’s juvenile justice system that could allow children to receive life sentences, urging authorities to ensure that the treatment of child offenders remains consistent with international human rights law. The UN rights chief stressed that even children accused or convicted [...]

The UN convened young people from across the world in New York on Wednesday to deliberate on Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance. Over 600 young people discussed how AI can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the delegates put forward a “Youth-led Declaration on AI Policy and Governance” that will direct the UN’s Global Digital [...]

A federal grand jury in Utah indicted a man Wednesday on a federal hate crime charge for allegedly stabbing a Muslim employee at a mall in an attack prosecutors say was motivated by the victim’s religion. Peter Michael Larsen, 48, was charged under 18 USC § 249 with willfully causing bodily injury because of the [...]

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday strongly condemned recent armed group attacks in the country’s Warrap state that left more than 60 civilians dead and at least 50 others injured. The peacekeeping mission described the attacks as deliberate targeting of non-combatants that may amount to war crimes under international law. According [...]

South Africa on Tuesday appealed to its fellow African governments to cover the full cost of deporting more than 80,000 undocumented migrants to their respective countries, presenting each nation with a bill for the airfare, ground transport, and processing of its citizens currently detained or awaiting removal from South African soil. According to the South [...]

New York Supreme Court Judge Wayne Ozzi of Richmond County issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Monday blocking Mayor Mamdani’s  pied-à-terre tax, a surcharge targeting high-value residential properties owned by non-primary residents that was set to take effect this month. The order demanded the administration stop publicly posting a Supplemental Roll detailing at least [...]

Four human rights organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration challenging US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that the measures unlawfully restrict their monitoring, legal, and advocacy work. Human Rights Watch, the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Open Society Institute filed the lawsuit in [...]

A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia Tuesday after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity. This was the first judgment issued by Syria’s own courts against the head of a government that ruled the country for decades and put down a 2011 uprising [...]

Türkiye’s parliament on Monday announced that it has passed a new law creating conditional legal mechanisms for certain members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The shift signifies an advance for the government’s “Terror-Free Türkiye” initiative and a potential de-escalation in the country’s decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants. The Law on Strengthening National Solidarity and Social [...]

UN experts on Monday decried the recent surge of violence and human rights abuses against civilians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, voicing concern that the rights crisis in the Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate at an accelerated rate, leaving civilians with no form of protection despite international appeals. Fifteen UN experts stated that, [...]