Myanmar announced on Saturday that it had undertaken steps to receive Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and will continue working with the country to support the return of those it verifies as former residents of Rakhine State, maintaining that the repatriation process should be handled primarily as a bilateral matter between Myanmar and Bangladesh, and not [...]

The Constitutional Council of France blocked the country’s new under-15 social media ban on Friday, holding that the ban was unconstitutional. The council reasoned that the ban unjustifiably deprived children of their right to freedom of expression and communication. The council found that the ban on all online platforms that allow users to connect and [...]

The United Nations issued a statement Wednesday urging warring parties in Sudan to take tangible action to protect civilians as attacks continue in the country’s Blue Nile and North Kordofan states. The call comes as the war between rival militaries, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), continues with no clear [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday criticized recently adopted changes to Türkiye’s juvenile justice system that could allow children to receive life sentences, urging authorities to ensure that the treatment of child offenders remains consistent with international human rights law. The UN rights chief stressed that even children accused or convicted [...]

The UN convened young people from across the world in New York on Wednesday to deliberate on Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance. Over 600 young people discussed how AI can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the delegates put forward a “Youth-led Declaration on AI Policy and Governance” that will direct the UN’s Global Digital [...]

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Tuesday strongly condemned recent armed group attacks in the country’s Warrap state that left more than 60 civilians dead and at least 50 others injured. The peacekeeping mission described the attacks as deliberate targeting of non-combatants that may amount to war crimes under international law. According [...]

South Africa on Tuesday appealed to its fellow African governments to cover the full cost of deporting more than 80,000 undocumented migrants to their respective countries, presenting each nation with a bill for the airfare, ground transport, and processing of its citizens currently detained or awaiting removal from South African soil. According to the South [...]

A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia Tuesday after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity. This was the first judgment issued by Syria’s own courts against the head of a government that ruled the country for decades and put down a 2011 uprising [...]

Türkiye’s parliament on Monday announced that it has passed a new law creating conditional legal mechanisms for certain members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The shift signifies an advance for the government’s “Terror-Free Türkiye” initiative and a potential de-escalation in the country’s decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants. The Law on Strengthening National Solidarity and Social [...]

UN experts on Monday decried the recent surge of violence and human rights abuses against civilians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, voicing concern that the rights crisis in the Palestinian territories continues to deteriorate at an accelerated rate, leaving civilians with no form of protection despite international appeals. Fifteen UN experts stated that, [...]