Amnesty International on Wednesday called for an investigation into a US airstrike on a migrant detention center in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen, in April. The airstrike was part of “Operation Rough Rider”—a 45-day campaign in which the US struck Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, in response tp Houthi missiles attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [...]
Devastating impacts have resulted from US state laws that require healthcare providers to notify a parent when their minor child elects to have an abortion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Wednesday. In its formal report, “Whose Abortion Is It? The Harms of State-Mandated Parental Notification for Abortion and Judicial Bypass in the United States,” [...]
UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan members on Wednesday voiced concern over the growing risk of nation-wide conflict returning to the country. The commission pointed to increasing armed altercations, political uprisings and detentions, and human rights violations within the country. Investigators determined the majority of these tensions have resulted from widespread political corruption. [...]
A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday halted the Trump administration’s plans to layoff thousands of federal employees in the wake of the government shutdown, ruling that the administration may not proceed with any new reductions-in-force (RIF) notices issued as a result of the shutdown. US District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District [...]
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern Thursday about violent protests that erupted in Cameroon following the announcement of the presidential election results. The OHCHR called on Cameroon’s security forces to refrain from using lethal force to quell demonstrations and urged them to abide by their obligations under international [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed alarm on Wednesday over Turkish government proposals to criminalize people within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, describing the development as “one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades.” According to the rights group, a leaked draft of the reform law reveals plans to amend the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a 2022 district court judgment in City of Huntington, West Virginia v. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation et al, holding that West Virginia common law permits public nuisance claims based on “the conditions resulting from the over-distribution of opioids.” The case will now return to [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of 10 Egyptian Nubian men who have been held by Saudi authorities for over five years, urging the country to uphold its commitment to political reforms. The organization emphasized that the ten individuals were detained solely for expressing their cultural heritage and [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called for the reversal of a Kyrgyzstan court ruling issued the previous day. The Oktyabrsky District Court ruled that publications by the investigative outlets Temirov Live and Kloop are extremist and should be banned. This marks the first time Kyrgyzstan has declared news outlets to be extremists, with [...]
Twenty-six states sued the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts for the department’s suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the current government shutdown. The USDA sent a letter to the states on October 24, 2025, suspending the allotment of SNAP benefits [...]
