Two UN expert committees on human rights on Wednesday endorsed  a joint statement  urging states to protect the rights of Venezuelan migrants amid recent mass migration from the South American country. The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, along with the Committee on the Rights [...]

Amnesty International  on Tuesday accused  South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) and Military Intelligence Directorate of continued arbitrary detention and torture of individuals accused of supporting opposition forces in the country. A cessation of hostilities agreement was signed by the government of South Sudan and opposition forces on December 21, 2017, that required the release [...]

A Myanmar judge sentenced two Reuters journalists on Monday to seven years in jail for breaching a law on state secrets. A judge found that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo breached the Official Secrets Act by obtaining confidential documents. The journalists were arrested on December 12, 2017, while investigating military operations in northern Rakhine [...]

Amnesty International  called Tuesday for the release of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, detained since June, and her husband Reza Khandan, who was arrested Tuesday. Reza Khandan was charged by Tehran’s Office of the Prosecutor with spreading propaganda against the system, colluding to commit crimes against national security, and promoting the practice of appearing [...]

The government of the island nation of Mauritius presented its claim Monday to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the British government forced the transfer of the Chagos Islands as a condition of independence in the 1960s. The UK leased the Diego Garcia island within the Chagos Archipelago to the US in 1966, which was [...]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination  urged the Chinese government on Thursday to release the Muslim minorities known as Uighurs from involuntary detention. The Committee put forth a report  estimating up to one million Uighurs could be held in detention centers. The report found that members of the Uighur ethnic group were allegedly [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday found former Bosnian Serb senior official Jovan Tintor guilty of crimes against civilians and sentenced him to 11 years in prison . Tintor was indicted by the court in 2016 on counts of crimes against humanity under Bosnian law. The indictment alleged that Tintor played a role in [...]

Several Philippines families filed a communication  with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of murder during his war on drugs. The communication is the second filed with the ICC, the first of which was filed in April 2017. The ICC began preliminary examination in February. The communication charges  Duterte with crimes against humanity in [...]

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned  the government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. A number of groups challenged the approval, including several First Nations and two cities, saying that the First Nations were not adequately consulted and that there was no meaningful dialogue about the project. The Federal Court of Appeal [...]

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said Thursday that Indian authorities detained five activists and raided the homes of several others on Tuesday for allegedly inciting caste-based violence in January. Maharashtra police arrested the activists based on India’s principle counter terrorism law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act . Authorities allege that their actions at a large [...]