A Japanese citizen has been arrested and detained in Tehran, leading to formal demands from Japan for their immediate release, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki said  on Wednesday. While the Japanese government has not identified the individual, reports indicate that the detainee is Shinnosuke Kawashima, Tehran bureau chief of NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster. Ozaki [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that Greece is “under fire” for a law targeting aid groups, following a “damning critique” published by five UN experts. The experts warned a Tuesday letter to the Greek government that the law would unduly restrict the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The UN experts, led by Mary Lawlor, Special [...]

A federal trial started on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth in relation to an incident that occurred on July 4, 2025, outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The Prairieland Detention Center is a facility that holds individuals in the custody of the US [...]

Rights group Amnesty  International reported on Wednesday that a Nigerian police unit known as Tiger Base, established to combat kidnapping and armed robbery in Imo State, has engaged in unlawful killings, torture, and other forms of ill-treatment of suspects. In a report titled Tiger Base of Atrocities: Human Rights Violations by Nigeria Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit [...]

A coalition of 14 state attorneys general and Pennsylvania’s governor jointly filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal childhood immunization schedule. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and acting Centers [...]

On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted, abused, and killed people with disabilities during their October 26 takeover of the long-besieged city of El Fasher in North Darfur province. The RSF deliberately targeted people with disabilities, often accusing them of being members of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), [...]

In a public letter issued on Tuesday, the Canadian Bar Association urged the country’s Senate not to pass Bill C-12. The group said the bill would deprive asylum seekers of their right to procedural fairness and disproportionately impact vulnerable groups. In the statement, the Bar Association argued that diverting asylum seekers from the Immigration and [...]

The United Nations on Tuesday warned that Somalia’s hunger levels and acute food insecurity have steeply risen, almost doubling since last year, putting millions of children at risk of malnutrition. An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) monitoring analysis report found: “Worsening drought, conflict and insecurity, and soaring food prices have driven a sharp deterioration [...]

Venezuelan lawmakers on Tuesday announced that over 3,000 people have obtained full freedom under implementation of the country’s newly signed amnesty law, which was unanimously adopted and came into effect last week. Deputy Jorge Arreaza, president of the Special Commission for Monitoring the Amnesty Law for Democratic Coexistence, announced in a press release that more than [...]

UN experts stated on Tuesday that new regulations concerning seabed governance, including seabed mining, must be grounded in international human rights and environmental laws, ahead of the 31st session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA). In a press release, the experts emphasized that states have an obligation under international law to ensure that regulatory frameworks [...]