Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the Pakistan government should exercise restraint in dealing with ongoing protests in the province of Balochistan. It further called for releasing all those arrested for peaceful protesting and asked to restore internet access. On July 28th, conflict erupted in Balochistan when 14 supporters of the Baloch Yakjehti [...]

The Kenya Court of Appeal at Nairobi delivered a judgement Wednesday rendering the controversial Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional. The Finance Bill 2023 was tabled before the National Assembly on May 4, 2023. It was later assented to by the president on June 26, 2023 and became Finance Act 2023. The Act amended 12 laws, eliciting 11 [...]

A Guinea court sentenced former military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for committing crimes against humanity in a massacre in the country’s capital Conakry. At least 265 demonstrators were killed and raped in the September 28, 2009 massacre by Camara’s subordinates. The court acceded to the prosecution’s request to [...]

The Supreme Court of Nepal has ruled that Rukshana Kapali, a transgender woman, should be legally recognised on all documents as a woman without having to submit to medical verification according to a Wednesday report by HRW. As part of her campaign for rights-based legal recognition of gender identity, transgender law student Kapali has filed [...]

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Tuesday released a landmark decision declaring that the displacement of the indigenous Batwa people from their ancestral lands within the Kahuzi-Biega National Park by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was a violation of their rights, and requesting the Batwa to receive title to their [...]

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a thematic report on Wednesday, documenting the detention of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory against the backdrop of escalating hostilities in Gaza. The report titled “Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023-June 2024)” entails accounts [...]

The United States Senate on Tuesday passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSA), a bill that aims to protect children from harmful content online and hold internet companies accountable for exposing minors to content that can harm their mental health. KOSA would establish a “duty of care” for internet platforms, requiring them to [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Tuesday a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta Platforms Inc. over the company’s unauthorized collection and use of biometric data from millions of Texans. This settlement is the largest ever obtained by a single state and marks the first settlement under Texas’s Capture the Use of Biometric Identifier Act [...]

The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday passed a resolution to lift the arms embargo on the Central African Republic (CAR) and decided that all UN member states shall take necessary measures to prevent the supply of arms to armed groups operating within the CAR until July 31, 2025. Resolution 2745 (2024) was passed unanimously [...]

The government of Tanzania is implementing policies intended to force Maasai residents to relocate outside of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. HRW reported that the government has utilized tactics such as cutting essential public services “including schools and health centres,” banning residents from growing crops, [...]