Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday condemned Senegal’s harsh crackdown on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, warning that mass arrests, forced HIV testing and punitive laws are violating basic rights and fueling fear and stigma. The group urged the government to bring to a halt these abuses immediately, especially as Senegal prepares to [...]

Ethiopian federal police deployed across the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle on Friday, using loudspeakers to urge residents to help law enforcement restore civil order and establish a transitional administration after local forces of the the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) withdrew. Federal officers patrolled main transit corridors alongside members of the government-allied Tigray Peace [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Koldo Casla warned Friday in an end-of-mission statement that Ghana’s commercial construction boom is failing to address the country’s housing shortage, urging the government to prioritize working-class affordability and end unlawful evictions. Concluding a 12-day official visit to the West African nation, Casla emphasized that commercially [...]

Amnesty International, in a joint statement with over 100 human rights and humanitarian organizations issued Friday, condemned Israel’s persistent violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, and warned that such violations render the ceasefire meaningless. Amnesty called for the ceasefire to be respected, and demanded accountability: The persistent failure to hold Israel accountable and press Israel [...]

The Delhi Police increased restrictions and heightened security measures on Friday, including the closure of metro stations and disruptions to travel routes, ahead of major protests scheduled for the next day. Delhi is preparing for a large-scale demonstration to demand the resignation of India’s Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar amid irregularities in the Election Commission’s [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls Reem Alsalem on Thursday called for stronger protections for older women, warning that ageism and sex discrimination continue to leave violence, exploitation and neglect largely invisible in laws, policies and support systems. Alsalem’s Report A/81/133, entitled “Violence against older women,” highlighted persistent gaps in legal protection, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the Salvadoran courts, saying that since the beginning of 2026 they have been holding trials that have convicted hundreds of defendants at a time, relying on uncorroborated evidence and giving defendants no chance to prepare a defense. Commenting on the mass trials, Juanita Goebertus, Americas director at Human [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the Trump administration’s “third-country removal” policy, which has sent people primarily to African countries where they have no connection: Between January 20, 2025, and August 5, 2026, according to ICE data, the “third-country” deportation program transferred nearly 28,000 people to more than 50 countries that are neither their [...]

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday that Tawila, in Sudan’s Darfur region, which hosts more than 700,000 displaced people, is currently experiencing severe shortages of food, water, and healthcare, calling for an urgent increase in resources and humanitarian funding. The WHO representative in Sudan, Dr Abdinasir Abubakr, said that Darfur recorded high [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Denmark and Greenland to ensure accountability and the rights of Inuit women at the centre of their response to the decades-long imposition of contraception without consent in Greenland. The statement comes as Denmark and Greenland continue to address the forced contraception case, in which Greenlandic Inuit women and [...]