A hot afternoon, a stifling café, the hum of talk around us. A companion nodded toward a woman nearby and asked me: “Who comes to a café wearing skin-tight leggings and carrying an aggressively feminine fake Gucci bag? It doesn’t match, does it, Malek? There’s something aesthetically incoherent about the whole composition—something excessive, almost irritating: [...]

The UN Human Rights Office stated on Wednesday that Sudan’s war economy is contributing to sustaining the ongoing armed conflict between Sudanese military forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), through the trade of various Sudanese commodities, including gum arabic, one of the country’s main exports. In addition to external military support and weapons supply, [...]

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights advocate, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court alleging a coordinated conspiracy between senior administration officials and three private organizations to target and deport him for his advocacy. Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student who became the public face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism. [...]

The government of Mexico on Tuesday announced that the government has initiated several criminal complaints in response to the deaths of Mexican immigrants in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). President Claudia ​Sheinbaum’s administration has begun filing complaints with US state prosecutors through the Mexican Embassy, and sending cease-and-desist letters to US [...]

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday that it has asked Trial Chamber IV for authorization to withdraw all charges against former Sudanese rebel commander Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, concluding that the evidence is no longer sufficient to sustain the case. The proceedings are formally titled The Prosecutor v. [...]

The Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk violated state election bribery law by offering $1 million payments to voters during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to reports on Tuesday. The commission voted 5-1 in a closed session last Thursday to refer two confidential complaints against Musk to the Brown [...]

A UN expert urged the UK government on Tuesday to protect women’s rights by maintaining single-sex spaces and services. The appeal comes as a draft Code of Practice is pending approval by the country’s Parliament, of which some members consider the draft a “deliberate rollback of minority rights in the UK for trans people.” The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report Monday stating that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face deadly risks from the recent landslides that killed at least 17 and displaced over 3,000. Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at HRW, said the risks to the refugee camps are a result of government policies, stating: Every monsoon is becoming [...]

The United States once stood as the principal architect of modern international criminal justice, from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Today, however, it finds itself in the disquieting position of actively undermining the [...]

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) on Monday a condemned the government’s revocation of the credentials of numerous lawyers and notaries. According to testimonies from those affected, there was no notification, legal basis, nor official explanation for the revocation. Many did not know they had been stripped of their licenses until [...]