The UN Human Rights Council adopted Draft resolution A/HRC/S-39/L.1 Friday, calling for an urgent investigation into allegations of recent and ongoing serious human rights breaches, abuses, and crimes perpetrated in relation to the protests that began in Iran on December 28. It was approved with 25 votes in favor, seven against, and 14 abstentions from [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged Bangladeshi political parties to address critical human rights issues before the national elections on February 12. The organization is calling on all candidates to make human rights a central part of their platforms during and after the election. Amnesty’s report lists several areas that any new government must take seriously, [...]

A sessions court in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday sentenced human rights lawyer Iman Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, fellow lawyer Hadi Ali Chattha, to a combined 17 years imprisonment on multiple charges related to controversial social media posts. The two were charged in accordance with the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). According to the [...]

Malaysia’s anti-corruption commission (MACC) on Friday arrested the country’s former Armed Forces chief, Mohamad Nizam Jaafar, as part of the ongoing anti-corruption crackdown within the military. Nizam has been charged with two counts of abuse of power, one count of criminal breach of trust, and one count of accepting gifts; all of which he has [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Friday hailed Malaysia’s positive developments in maternal and infant health care, while questioning the use of penalties for children convicted in serious crimes and calling for alternatives to institutionalization for children. Following its review of Malaysia’s latest periodic report, the committee commended the country’s efforts [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, on Friday expressed grave concern about Israel’s ongoing systemic attacks against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the UN, and the Palestinian people. The remarks come following Israeli forces’  demolition of the UNRWA compound in East [...]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report on Thursday that it urgently needs USD $128 million to sustain its operations in Nigeria through June, warning that more than a million people in the country’s northeast could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks as violence surges across the nation. [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that recent reductions in donor support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria risk undermining the right to health for millions of people worldwide. HRW said donors have pledged US$11.85 billion toward the Global Fund’s US$18 billion target for the 2026–2028 replenishment cycle, leaving a US$6.15 [...]

Denmark and Greenland began the year by rejecting any suggestion of US control over Greenland, stating that the island’s sovereignty remains absolute, despite comments by Donald Trump that referenced a proposed Arctic security framework with NATO. Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a televised address January 5 condemned what she called threats, pressure and condescending [...]

A group of 73 South Korean nationals accused of participating in online scam operations in Cambodia were returned to South Korea on Friday. They will now face formal investigations in South Korea surrounding alleged “scam compounds.” Officials allege that the group is responsible for defrauding more than 800 South Koreans of approximately 33 million US [...]