The UN Human Rights Office raised alarm on Monday of a “sharp hike” in the number of executions globally in 2025. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk articulated the office’s key concerns, stating: My Office monitored an alarming increase in the use of the capital punishment in 2025, especially for offences not meeting [...]

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo declared a 30-day nationwide “state of siege” on Monday following a spree of gang violence that left nine police officers dead in the nation’s capital. The declaration was made unilaterally and currently awaits congressional approval. However, it will remain in place until a decision is reached. The recent killings are believed [...]

On Monday, the Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic (CAR) declared Faustin Archange Touadera president for a third term, finding that he received some 78 percent of the vote in last month’s election. Touadera has been president of CAR since 2016. Before provisional results were released on January 5, Touadéra’s opponents alleged he engaged [...]

 The South African Department of Defence on Friday announced an investigation into accusations that officials failed to follow President Cyril Ramaphosa’s instructions on Iran’s role in a multinational naval exercise. The ministry, led by Defence Minister Angie Motshekga, said its authorized Board of Inquiry must establish what occurred and submit a report within seven days [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated on Sunday in Port Sudan that Sudanese civilians experience “horror and hell” as the country’s civil war approaches three-years, condemning use of child soldiers and diversion of resources into advanced weaponry, including drones. Commissioner Volker Türk criticized the practice of procuring weapons with humanitarian funds and further [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday stated that the Sri Lankan government’s proposed counterterrorism legislation risks a similar oppression to its current abusive law. The bill fails to meet benchmarks for protection of rights set by the UN. According to the rights group, the bill also does not comply with Sri Lanka’s rights obligations made [...]

The Taiwan Ciaotou District Court on Saturday ordered the incommunicado detention of a journalist. The District Prosecutors Office accused the journalist of bribing army officers to obtain military information, in violation of the island’s National Security Act, Anti-Corruption Act, and criminal provisions regarding the disclosure of confidential information. In a press statement, the District Prosecutors [...]

The Federal Court of Appeal of Canada on Friday ruled that the Canadian federal government’s 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was “unreasonable” and beyond the government’s legal authority. The ruling affirms the 2024 Federal Court decision by Justice Richard Mosley, who concluded the statutory threshold for declaring a public order emergency was not met. [...]

Libya’s Attorney General’s Office on Friday announced the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 21 individuals. A prosecutor at the Benghazi Attorney General’s Office charged an individual identified by the initials (MFH) with human trafficking in connection with the discovery. A joint investigation by the Internal Security Agency and Battalion 166 led [...]

Twenty-four volunteers of the humanitarian NGO Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) were acquitted this Thursday after facing criminal charges for more than seven years, following their arrest during search and rescue operations on the Greek island of Lesvos in August 2018. The court, presided over by Judge Vassilis Papathanassiou, stated: “Waiting to rescue a human [...]