The Canadian parliament voted unanimously on Friday to grant honorary Canadian citizenship to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian political prisoner and Kremlin critic, hoping that this move would increase the chances that he would be released alive. The title has only been granted to foreign nationals seven times before, including champions of human rights and democracy [...]

The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) acknowledged that they were investigating reports that the Taliban was refusing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aid for education in some areas in a Thursday statement to the press. A recent report from the Associated Press cites to a WhatsApp voice note from a senior Taliban education official describing how [...]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland announced on Friday that it will suspend operations of its embassy in Moscow starting August 1, 2023. Iceland has also requested Russia to limit the operations of its embassy in Reykjavík. Iceland’s embassy of Iceland in Moscow has been operating since 1944, except between 1951-1953, when there was [...]

The UN announced Friday that a Tanzanian unit of peacekeeping forces deployed with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was removed after sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) allegations.  The UN said that eleven members of the unit were found to have credible allegations from four victims. The entire [...]

Chang Weiping, a Chinese human rights lawyer, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Thursday shortly after he was found guilty of “subversion of State Power.” He is known for defending marginalized groups and those facing discrimination, and for speaking out about his treatment at the hands of Chinese police. “It [...]

South Korean law enforcement have apprehended 77 individuals as part of an investigation of a suspected network of industrial espionage, per exclusive reporting from the Yonhap news agency. The individuals were allegedly involved in 35 distinct incidents, exposing the concerning magnitude of this unlawful operation.  The investigation primarily targeted domestic companies, but it also exposed [...]

The United Nations secretary general for humanitarian affairs said in a series of UN reports on Friday that Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis has been made severely worse by the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s destruction. The UN’s top official in Ukraine, Denise Brown, says that immediate needs are now “huge.” In his statement to the UN, Secretary [...]

The Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria’s top intelligence agency, announced Saturday that Governor of the Nigerian Central Bank Godwin Emefiele was arrested. The arrest comes just hours after recently elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu suspended Emefiele from his position. Tinubu’s office released a statement about the suspension, saying, “This is sequel to the [...]

Police Scotland announced on Sunday that former first minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested in relation to party finances. In the statement they said that “a 52-year-old woman has today, ​Sunday, 11 June, 2023, been arrested as a suspect in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party. The [...]

The UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee on Sunday condemned the country’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill in their latest report and urged the government “not to breach its legal obligations to refugees, children and victims of modern slavery, and to play its part in the global system of refugee protection.” Government officials have claimed the bill [...]