Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomed on Thursday that significant progress has been achieved globally towards strengthening children’s rights in its 2025 highlights. It praised various measures adopted by some countries to protect children’s right to education. However, it stressed that an international treaty remains necessary to complement the UN Convention on the Rights of the [...]
The Italian Court of Cassation confirmed on Wednesday the acquittal of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in the Open Arms case. Since it was handed down by the court of last instance, the decision is final. It rejects the appeal presented by the Prosecutor’s Office of Palermo, which requested the annulment of the acquittal [...]
The UN Human Rights Office published a report on Thursday detailing their findings of atrocities committed during a three-day offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sudan. The UN deems this conduct to amount to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights [...]
At least 22 ethnic Teke civilians were killed in late November when militia fighters attacked a village in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, the latest episode of intercommunal violence that has plagued the region since 2022. The massacre in Nkana village, located in Kwamouth territory roughly 75 kilometers northeast of the capital Kinshasa, was [...]
Satellite imagery analysis reveals widespread evidence of systematic mass killings and body disposal by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Sudan, following the paramilitary group’s capture of the North Darfur state capital in late October, according to a report released this week by Yale University researchers. The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian [...]
A coalition of nine international human rights organizations on Wednesday called on Kazakhstan to end its crackdown on independent media after authorities raided a newsroom, detained journalists, and pressured reporters over their coverage. Police searched the offices of independent news outlet Orda.kz on Dec. 1 and detained editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, who was placed under house [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Egyptian authorities on Wednesday to quash the conviction of prominent economist Abd al-Khaliq Farouk, who was sentenced to five years in prison on October 2 for articles and social media posts critical of the government and military. HRW described the conviction as a “violation of his free speech and due [...]
The Maryland legislature overrode a veto by Governor Wes Moore on Tuesday, clearing the way for the creation of a commission to study potential reparations for slavery. The bill’s veto was overridden in the Maryland House of Delegates by a vote of 93-35, and in the state Senate by a vote of 31-14. The passage [...]
US President Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation on Tuesday expanding his existing travel ban by 20 additional countries. The ban restricts the entry of nationals from certain designated countries while imposing partial restrictions on others. The proclamation fully prevents nationals from five new countries from entering the US: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Türkiye violated Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in refusing to transfer a prisoner to a detention center closer to his family. In the case of Emre v Türkiye, the Strasbourg court found the Turkish authorities [...]
