Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Nepalese authorities on Tuesday to promptly investigate the deaths of two journalists in November 2024 and March 2025. The organization expressed concern over the slow progress of inquiries and warned that ongoing impunity in these cases threatens journalists’ safety and right to information. One of the journalists, 32-year-old Suresh [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the escalating crackdown on press freedom in Iran on Tuesday and urged Iranian authorities to immediately cease their systematic persecution of journalists and media organizations. This development comes in the wake of the conviction of six media activists from both private and state-affiliated outlets by political-press courts in [...]

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, called Tuesday for an arms embargo and sanctions against Israel, advocating for an emergency session in the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Albanese claimed, “The tiny bodies of children in Gaza, hollowed out by induced starvation, are testimony of the worst [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern on Monday over the suspension of the Iraqi political talk show Al-Haq Yuqal (The Truth Be Told), hosted by journalist Adnan Al-Taie, and urged the Iraqi authorities to restore the program. Iraqi authorities, citing “violations of public decency,” suspended the program for seven days and ordered past [...]

The European Commission announced Monday that the EU will end its reliance on Russian energy exports, citing security concerns. This announcement coincided with the release of the REPowerEU Roadmap, which serves as a follow-up to 2022’s REPowerEU Plan. The 2022 plan was launched in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and marked a commitment to [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan condemned an aerial bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Fangak county by the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) as an atrocity crime on Tuesday. According to MSF, two helicopter gunships carried out the strike that obliterated the hospital on Sunday, May 4. [...]

Amnesty International warned in a report on Monday that Pakistan’s healthcare and disaster response systems failed to meet the needs of the elderly and children, who were the most vulnerable to the risks of death and disease due to extreme weather events related to climate change. The report noted the increasing frequency of heatwaves and [...]

UN human rights experts on Monday called on the Council of Europe to begin the negotiation on initiating a binding protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights recognizing the right to a healthy environment. Europe must respond decisively to science, justice, and its citizens, the experts stated, noting that youth and marginalized communities disproportionately [...]

Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed charges of five tax violations against former King Juan Carlos on Monday due to a lack of new evidence, upholding a prosecutor’s 2022 exoneration of all tax violations that were found. The case was brought by a group of former jurists who argued that only a court can exonerate an individual [...]

The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) filed a lawsuit on Monday against its classification by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist organization. The legal action was filed in the Cologne Administrative Court and claimed that the classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) infringes upon democratic competition and [...]