Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of a former Macao lawmaker following his arrest on “national security” charges. The arrest marked the first time Macao, a Special Administrative Region of China, has invoked its sweeping Law on Safeguarding National Security. Maya Wang, associate China director at HRW, said, [...]
The Taliban’s systematic use of Afghanistan’s legal and judicial system to target women and girls amounts to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations human rights expert said in a report circulated Wednesday. Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, told the General Assembly that the Taliban have “weaponized” [...]
Government agency Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) reported Thursday that entrenched gender segregation in Australia’s labor market is holding back productivity and worsening long-term income inequality, particularly for First Nations and migrant women. The report, “New Perspectives on Old Problems: Gendered Jobs, Work and Pay,” is the first release in JSA’s Gender Economic Equality Study. [...]
Vocal Africa and other human rights organizations condemned alleged police corruption in Kenya on Wednesday, calling for a complete disbandment of the country’s National Police Service (NPS). The group statement demanded “urgent, fearless, and total disbandment and recruitment of police in Kenya,” arguing that the existing system is “irredeemably broken.” It rejected more moderate proposals [...]
Amnesty International reported Wednesday that social media platform X, formerly Twitter, played a central role in fueling anti-Muslim and anti-migrant violence in the UK following the 2024 Southport stabbings. The rights organization cited design flaws in the platform’s algorithm that made it prone to amplifying harmful content. Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK chief executive, said, [...]
The student newspaper at Stanford University sued US President Donad Trump’s administration on Wednesday over the government’s attempt to use federal immigration law to deport noncitizens who have spoken out on their pro-Palestine beliefs. The newspaper, The Daily Stanford, brought the suit because of two anonymous members of the newspaper, who have had to “self-censor” [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Wednesday that Israeli forces have occupied and vandalized schools in Lebanon in acts that amounted to war crimes. HRW visited seven schools in Lebanon between January and March, and documented “damage and destruction to the schools as well as the surrounding villages.” HRW cautioned that Israel’s pillaging of Lebanese [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday called for a fully transparent and impartial investigation into the conviction and two-year sentence handed down to Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli, amid serious allegations of ill-treatment and an unfair trial. Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, stated, “Mzia Amaglobeli must receive a fair trial, and [...]
A coalition of 15 rights groups, including Amnesty International, Article 19 and Politics for Women Myanmar, released a joint public statement on Tuesday, expressing concern over reports of an ever-worsening human rights crisis in Myanmar prisons. The letter condemned the military regime for its widespread use of torture and the systematic denial of healthcare to [...]
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on the international community to “break down barriers and restore fairness in global development,” during opening remarks at the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) in Awaza, Turkmenistan. The conference, held from August 5 to 8, brings together representatives from the 32 landlocked developing [...]
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