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Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that military authorities in West Africa have been increasingly using enforced disappearances as a means of repression against civil and political activists who criticize the government. The organization noted that the military and security forces in Mali, Niger, Guinea and Burkina Faso resorted to unlawful detentions and enforced disappearances to [...]

The National Assembly of France voted 369-68 Tuesday in favor of a sweeping new law aimed to address an uptick in drug-related crime. The new law will create a specialized public prosecutor’s office designed to investigate and combat organized crime. The law overhauls a broad set of reforms intended to address organized drug trafficking. Its [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Wednesday a report documenting serious human rights violations committed by Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups during the aftermath of the 2024 presidential elections. HRW presents evidence on the killings, cases of torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions perpetrated by armed groups supporting the government called colectivos, and security [...]

Cuba revoked parole and arrested prominent dissidents Jose Daniel Ferrer and Felix Navarro on Tuesday. The Supreme Popular Tribunal, Cuba’s highest court, announced in a statement that Ferrer and Navarro had violated parole conditions and therefore must return to prison. Maricela Sosa, vice president of the Supreme Popular Council, cited Article 149 of Law No. [...]

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday to target sanctuary jurisdictions for violating, obstructing, and defying federal immigration laws, and to bolster immigration enforcement by “empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens.” The first order, titled “Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens,” begins by [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out Myanmar’s military junta on Monday for years of unlawful attacks on the healthcare system that have left 2 million people in need of assistance following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month. According to HRW, the junta has arrested over 872 health workers, attacked 263 medical facilities, and killed 74 [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a disability-rights appeal brought on behalf of a student and her parents against their school district, alleging their child did not receive fair accommodations for her disability. The case, AJT v. Osseo Area Schools, No. 24-249, weighs whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday reassuring the US civil society groups of the human rights group’s solidarity amidst Trump administration funding cuts. The human rights group highlighted that the funding cuts are “not a policy shift, but a direct and unjustifiable attack on the work of many important organizations.” The statement underlined [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Tuesday that the Republic of Malta’s “golden passport” program, where foreign investors could apply to be naturalized as a Maltese citizen for making direct investments, amounted to the commercialization of EU citizenship. This was found to be a violation of Malta’s obligations under Article [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Jordanian authorities forcibly evicted and demolished residences in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without following proper procedures, as part of an urban development project. The project’s stated goals include improving living conditions, managing urban growth, and recovering the costs of upgrading and expanding infrastructure facilities through [...]