UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday urged calm and restraint amid escalating unrest ahead of regional elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, emphasizing the need for impartial investigations into protest-related deaths and fir renewed political dialogue to address longstanding grievances. Türk expressed concern over increasing violence in the region as tensions continue to [...]

The UN warned on Friday that Djibouti is facing severe emergency-level hunger following the release of a report on the food insecurity situation in the East African country. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Index report projected that between July and December 2026, more than 25 percent of Djibouti’s population, 256,000 people, are facing [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged member states of the African Union to continue providing political, legal and financial support to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court), to enable the Court to carry out its mandate more effectively across the continent. In light of the Court’s 20th anniversary, which fell on July [...]

Amnesty International on Friday condemned the Portuguese Parliament’s recent announcement that it had passed a new law prohibiting the donning of face coverings in public areas, a decision that carries repercussions for fundamental civil liberties and individual autonomy in the country. João Godinho Martins, the executive director of Amnesty International in Portugal, stated: “Far from [...]

The UK Lord Speaker, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, warned on Thursday that the rushed House of Lords reform could have the unintended effect of “blowing a constitutional fuse.” His comments came in a public speech given at the Hansard Society. In his speech, Forsyth argued that the upper house can, without time constraints and pressures [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday raised concerns surrounding the arbitrary detention of government critics by the Ugandan military, stating that the authorities hold the individuals in undisclosed locations and subsequently transfer them to civilian authorities for politically motivated prosecutions. The organization said the detentions form part of a broader campaign against opposition figures, lawyers, journalists, [...]

The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) on Friday released a statement defending the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the announcement of a campaign by the United States Department of State that seeks to paralyze and ultimately dissolve the Court. The network reiterated that the ICC, created by the 2002 Rome Statute, is an independent [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged the UK government to review and re-sentence people still subject to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in England and Wales, warning that indefinite detention is causing severe psychological harm, self-harm, and an increased risk of suicide. The experts said about 2,400 people remain under the IPP system, even [...]

Argentina protested against a UK vessel, HMS Medway, for its allegedly illegal approach to the Falkland Islands through Argentina’s territorial water, in a Thursday post on X (formerly Twitter) by its Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno. The post came after Argentina’s national team displayed a controversial slogan relating to the territory at the end of its [...]

The Reparations Committee of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met with Church of England clergy and British parliamentarians on Tuesday to discuss reparations for slavery.  In their attempt to move from public advocacy to formal negotiations, CARICOM scheduled a visit to the UK from July 13 to July 16 to demand more than the previous apologies [...]