Articles Tagged with The Committee on the Rights of the Child

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday criticized the UK government’s human rights record over the past year, pinpointing issues such as its immigration policies, protest crackdowns, and inadequate response to the cost of living crisis. In the World Report 2026, an annual report which assesses the status of human rights globally, HRW highlighted the criminalization [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an injunction request from California Republicans who had asked the court to block the implementation of a new congressional map before the 2026 mid-term elections. The ballot initiative, called “Proposition 50,” redistricts California to potentially flip five Republican-held seats to Democrats. Republicans challenged the new map shortly after [...]

The appeal of the fraud conviction of a Catholic cardinal resumed in the Vatican on Tuesday after a pause in proceedings following the resignation of the case’s chief prosecutor for alleged impartiality. In the continuation of the appeal, the defense argued that the original investigation into the case was flawed. In 2019, Pope Francis issued [...]

Ryan Wesley Routh was sentenced to life in prison plus 84 months for his attempted assassination of President Donald Trump and related offenses, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release announced on Wednesday. Routh attempted to kill Trump at one of Trump’s golf courses in West Palm Beach, Florida in September of 2024. [...]

Amnesty International condemned an Algerian court for a decision in the second instance, deciding to uphold the imprisonment of trade unionist and president of the National Union of Civil Servants in the Field of Culture and Arts (SNFC), Ali Mammeri, on Tuesday. The decision also reduced the sentence from 15 years to 10 years. Mammeri [...]

New research published Thursday by two non-profit organizations, HelpAge International and Amnesty International, shows older people suffering an overlooked health crisis in occupied Gaza. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy, and Campaigns, explained the key facets of the situation, stating: During armed conflict, older people’s needs are often overlooked. In Gaza, [...]

UN experts on Wednesday urged Israel to withdraw a bill proposing the mandatory death penalty for terrorist acts, warning it would violate the right to life and discriminate against Palestinians. The urgent call was issued by a group of UN Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts, who detailed how the proposed legislation would create a two-tier [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday reiterated that “the occupation must end,” warning that recent Israeli settlement plans and mounting restrictions on humanitarian organizations threaten the possibility of a two-state solution and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speaking at the 2026 Opening Session of the Committee on the Exercise of the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that crackdowns on freedoms increased in several West African countries throughout 2025, following the release of its annual global report on the status of human rights. The 36th edition of the World Report documented a widespread regression in political and civil rights across the region. The report highlighted extended [...]

UN experts on Wednesday condemned the conviction of lawyers and human rights defenders Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha by the District and Sessions Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. Several independent experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, [...]