The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday expressed alarm over a court verdict imposing a gag order on retired Mexican journalist Jorge Luis González Valdez and the newspaper Tribuna. The CPJ called on Governor Layda Sansores of Campeche state to “immediately cease any judicial harassment” of González Valdez and Tribuna over coverage of her [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed Wednesday the obligations of states relating to climate change under treaties and customary law. The court emphasized that the severe and far-reaching climate change consequences are an “urgent and existential threat.” The court affirmed that environmental treaties, climate change treaties, and customary law inform one another and are [...]

UN humanitarian officials reported Tuesday that United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip have been collapsing from hunger and extreme exhaustion, underscoring the deepening humanitarian crisis. The increasing physical toll on aid workers has intensified global concerns over the survival of the civilian population in the war-torn enclave, where access to food, water and medical [...]

A Hong Kong court ruled Wednesday that the segregation of the sexes in public conveniences is unconstitutional for its disproportionate interference with transgender individuals’ right to privacy and equality. Judge Russell Coleman directed the government to review its regulations on the gender recognition scheme relating to access to public conveniences within 12 months. The government [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) requested on Tuesday that Philippine authorities conduct a swift and credible investigation into the killing of veteran broadcaster Erwin Labitad Segovia, who was shot on Monday while riding his motorcycle home after his morning broadcast in Bislig city. According to CPJ, Segovia, also known as “Boy Pana,” is the [...]

UN human rights experts on Monday demanded the Taliban release a British couple who they said have been arbitrarily detained in Afghanistan since February. Experts criticized the couple’s lack of access to effective legal assistance and medical care, severed communication with family members, and deprivation of liberty without due process. They stressed the severity of [...]

Amnesty International stated on Tuesday that the Nepalese government has failed to protect the right to housing, which has resulted in homelessness particularly affecting marginalized groups, particularly Dalit and Indigenous peoples. The organization condemned the repeated forced evictions conducted by the Nepalese authorities and urged the government to implement appropriate safeguards to protect citizens’ right [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) praised the High Court of Malawi’s unanimous decision on Monday to decriminalize the former offense of defamation. CPJ spokesperson Muthoki Mumo said: Malawi’s Constitutional Court has taken a monumental step towards protecting press freedom and affirmed that criticism and dissent are essential to democracy by ruling criminal defamation to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported that Mali’s armed forces and allied Russian mercenaries have carried out numerous “summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men.” HRW documented that, since January, the Malian army and Wagner Group mercenaries have executed “at least a dozen Fulani men and forcibly disappeared at least 81 men” [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published a report on Monday assessing the state of public media across 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The report warns of future threat scenarios for independent public media broadcasting as the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) is set to fully come into force on August 8. “Public media must [...]