Human Rights Watch Friday called on Latin America, the United States and Europe to take action to protect the right to vote in Venezuela in the lead-up to the country’s presidential election Sunday, amidst numerous reports of arbitrary disqualifications of opposition candidates, arbitrary arrests and restrictions to civic space. In June 2023, former opposition party [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday setting guidelines for the removal of homeless encampments by state agencies and departments while requesting that local governments adopt the policies as well. The order will require state agencies under Newsom’s authority to address homeless encampments on state property and set five explicit policies to follow [...]
Human rights organization Amnesty International called Thursday for the unconditional release of anti-corruption protestors detained by Ugandan authorities. The protestors were part of a march over the rise in corruption in the Ugandan Parliament. Tigere Chagutah of Amnesty International condemned the arrest of over a hundred young protestors in Uganda during the anti-corruption protests, calling it [...]
The lower house of the Parliament of Poland, known as Sejm of the Republic of Poland (SRP), approved a bill permitting the country’s Armed Forces, the Police and the Border Guard to use firearms against migrants attempting to illegally cross the Belarusian border. The Sejm approved the bill on July 12 but it still needs [...]
A US federal court Wednesday blocked the Department of Education’s Final Rule prohibiting sex discrimination against LGBTQ+ students from taking effect in six states. The plaintiffs in the suit were Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The states sought to block revised regulations which expanded Title IX discrimination protection to LGBTQ+ students. [...]
Amnesty International Kenya praised a High Court ruling Thursday which found that 11 police commanders and officers have a case to answer in connection with the death of baby Samantha Pendo and other victims of the 2017 post-election violence. The officers are facing 47 charges of crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, and rape. The [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday in Sweden’s favor that two cases of refusing to grant permanent residency to the families of an Eritrean and Ethiopian nationals respectively with refugee status did not constitute a violation of the right to family life and the right to be free from discrimination. The law [...]
The military authorities in Niger have committed numerous human rights violations in the year since the coup, according to the Thursday report released by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Violations include the suppression of opposition and peaceful dissent, arbitrary detention of ousted government officials, and restrictions on [...]
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, criticised a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Javaid Rehman on Wednesday asserting that the report is an attempt to damage the image of the country. Kanaani accused Rehman of relying on his international presence and of abusing [...]
US President Joe Biden signed into law the Federal Prison Oversight Act Thursday which established an inspection process and ombudsman in the Department of Justice. The act warrants that inspections conducted may be announced or unannounced, where each facility is assigned a risk score. Higher-risk facilities will receive more frequent inspections than other facilities. After [...]
