The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (UVA) that forbids the school from “discrimination” based on race, sex or national origin in admissions and hiring. The agreement follows months of pressure from the administration after a DOJ investigation that began in April led to officials claiming [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday that more than one million people have returned to Sudan’s war-ravaged capital Khartoum in the past 10 months, while basic services remain severely limited and infrastructure damaged. The organization reported that there are continuing disease outbreaks, damaged homes and shattered infrastructure, all of which create dangerous [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that the Taliban have severely undermined media freedom in Afghanistan by closing major news outlets and subjecting remaining ones to surveillance and censorship. The group called on authorities to cease mistreatment of journalists and remove discriminatory restrictions imposed on women reporters. HRW decried Taliban censorship, which incorporates monitoring of [...]

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born US permanent resident and activist, appeared Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit seeking to affirm a lower court’s ruling that blocked his deportation and authorized his release from detention. His legal team from the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) argues that the United States Department of [...]

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères, said Wednesday that the development of a model law on neurotechnologies and neurodata is necessary to protect the right to privacy. In a report presented to the 58th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the foundations and principles for [...]

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued the US House of Representatives Tuesday for not administering the oath of office to representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election to the House on September 23. The complaint follows a letter from Mayes to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that Grijalva be sworn in. Mayes now asks [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday that Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and periodically used disproportionate force against protesters since September 2025. Security forces have reportedly used tear gas, batons, and other “less-lethal” weapons indiscriminately and at close range, resulting in injury and, in some cases, death. HRW verified [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right violations and medical negligence in the country’s penal system. The deceased prisoners were identified as Soudabeh Asadi, Jamile Azizi, and Somayeh Rashidi. Asadi, who was [...]

The 195 member states of the UN Trade and Development organization (UNCTAD) gathered Monday in Geneva for its 16th conference, where leaders discussed the implementation of current World Trade Organization (WTO) rules concerning tariffs imposed by the United States on its trade partners. US tariffs threaten to put significant pressure on global trade and developing [...]

A UN report published on Monday revealed that women are still largely excluded from international community activities in the fields of peacemaking and security. The report analyzed the rising number of conflicts globally and their effect on women. International conflict rates are the highest they have been since 1946, and roughly 676 million women lived [...]