Major social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter), are failing to adequately protect LGBTQ+ users from hate, harassment, and disinformation, according to the 2025 Social Media Safety Index released Tuesday by the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD. The annual report’s fifth edition, which evaluates the performance of major platforms on 14 LGBTQ-specific safety [...]

The Scottish parliament on Tuesday voted to advance a historic assisted dying bill, following a stage one debate. The bill, introduced by MSP Liam McArthur, is a historic step towards providing physician-assisted dying for terminally ill adults. The proposed bill was approved at stage one with 70 votes to 56. The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill [...]

A group of UN human rights experts condemned on Wednesday the widespread and persistent violence against women and girls in Sudan as the armed conflict enters its third year. They found that many of the attacks were attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called for urgent action to end these atrocities. The experts [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged newly-elected Pope Leo XIV to initiate an immediate review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government. The Vatican-China agreement was signed between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China in 2018, aiming to bridge decades of division between state-sanctioned churches and underground Catholic communities [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed concern Tuesday regarding the number of deportations of individuals from the US. According to Türk, the deportations raise “serious concerns regarding a wide array of rights … rights to due process, to be protected from arbitrary detention, to equality before the law, to be protected from [...]

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called upon Venezuelan authorities on Tuesday to release all people arbitrarily detained since the 2024 presidential elections. In a statement published by the OHCHR, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged Venezuelan authorities “to release immediately all those arbitrarily detained, and to [...]

Amnesty International (AI) said in a press release on Tuesday that Kenyan women working as domestic laborers in Saudi Arabia face extreme exploitation amounting to slavery and human trafficking The press release summarizes a 50-page report AI released the previous day, detailing the inhumane treatment of the women by their employers. Domestic workers are forced [...]

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) found that Russia failed in its obligation to uphold international air law concerning the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in a historic vote on Monday. The vote was particularly important as it marked the first time in the history of the ICAO, a UN [...]

The UK government announced on Monday new reform policies to tighten immigration rules in a White Paper titled “Restoring Control over the Immigration System,” which was presented to parliament. The new rules focus on visa, asylum, and citizenship rules, with an overall goal of reducing immigration. The new rules have raised the requirements for skilled [...]

Amnesty International (AI) published a statement Monday condemning TikTok’s failure to address the previously identified risks to youth’s mental health. AI reported TikTok’s responses to previous inquiries into implemented changes since a 2023 report. The responses denied the creation of user profiles from collected data and listed steps that were taken to protect youth on [...]