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Amnesty International on Thursday raised alarm after Nicaragua’s announcement of a constitutional reform initiative that threatens to erase the country’s remaining democratic safeguards, extending presidential terms and permanently barring opponents from elections. President Daniel Ortega and co‑president Rosario Murillo have been accused of widespread abuses, from jailing critics to stripping political opponents of their possessions. [...]

A mass border breach at Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday has left at least 34 people dead after an estimated 60,000 attempted to cross into the territory, sparking what officials describe as a deepening border crisis. Spanish Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez condemned the crossings as a “violation of Spain’s territorial sovereignty,” and [...]

Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s program director for climate, social justice and corporate accountability, said Wednesday in a statement that the extreme heat driving wildfires, drought and floods across multiple continents amounts to a human rights emergency. She urged national governments to protect people now and to confront the fossil fuel industry Amnesty blames for the [...]

An attorney for several incarcerated transgender women argued Wednesday that the Trump administration violated a court order by transferring them to a segregated prison unit, and urged a federal judge to enforce the order. Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia heard the argument in Doe v. McHenry, [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres made a statement Wednesday calling for fresh talks to help rebuild trust between Cyprus island’s two divided communities, in a move to resolve the decades-long tension and find a sustainable political solution. Guterres explained the role of the UN, as well as the significance of a peaceful resolution to the lengthy [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday raised alarm over reports of torture, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention of members of Iran’s Bahá’í religious minority amid the ongoing US-Iran war. The UN experts say that approximately 57 Bahá’ís are currently detained or imprisoned in Iran. They report claims of arbitrary and incommunicado detention, physical and psychological [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called for the immediate release of a social media commentator who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment for criticizing the Vietnamese government, stating that her conviction is a violation to the right to freedom of expression. In January, blogger Hoang Thi Hong Thai was arrested after she made [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday ruled unanimously that a partial privative clause cannot bar judicial review on questions of fact and law. It held that judicial review on such questions is the courts’ “core supervisory jurisdiction” guaranteed by the Constitution. Chief Justice Richard Wagner, writing for the bench, held that Canada’s Constitution Act, [...]

A US federal judge in Nevada on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by FBI Director Kash Patel and his nonprofit foundation against a California blogger on July 25. Chief US District Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada granted blogger Jim Stewartson’s motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a Houston, Texas, city program establishing racial goals for public contracts violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, striking down the policy in one of the first rulings to extend a Supreme Court landmark 2023 affirmative action holding beyond the context of college admissions. Houston’s Minority, Women, and [...]