Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that governments negotiating a new global treaty on gig work should strengthen the draft text to ensure fair wages and social security for these workers and protect them from exploitative management. The call to action was issued alongside a formal briefing submitted to the International Labour Organization (ILO), which [...]

The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has opened an investigation into Google for a potential breach of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), focusing on whether the tech giant’s spam policy unfairly demotes media publishers in search results. The formal proceedings will assess if Google is applying “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” conditions to publishers, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Tunisia on Friday to overturn convictions in the so-called “Conspiracy Case” appeal to be heard next week, demanding the release of all detainees. The 37 defendants—including opponents of President Kais Saied, activists, lawyers, and researchers—were charged under numerous articles of Tunisia’s Penal Code and the 2015 Counterterrorism Law. The case [...]

Indigenous groups held protests on Friday in Belém, blocking the main entrance to the restricted area at the UN Climate Summit (COP30) to demand that the Brazilian government halt extractive projects that jeopardize their cultures and livelihoods. The protesters mostly belonged to the Munduruku Indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest, mainly in the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the increased immigration cooperation between Thai and Vietnamese authorities, warning that it puts Vietnamese refugees at imminent risk of forced removal in violation of international refugee law. HRW said that authorities have detained “scores of Vietnamese nationals” this year, including many individuals who have refugee and asylum status. [...]

Amnesty International warned on Friday that Colombia’s continued use of military courts to handle killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and other grave abuses by soldiers and police is a structural engine of impunity. In a new report, the rights group concluded that the military criminal justice system, known as the Justicia Penal Militar (JPM), remains deeply [...]

The United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday adopted a resolution ordering an urgent and independent fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights violations and other atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly committed large-scale atrocities, including ethnically motivated killings, torture, summary executions, and [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Chinese authorities to immediately release veteran journalist Dong Yuyu after the Beijing High Court upheld his seven-year prison sentence for espionage. The CPJ said the court affirmed the conviction without providing reasons, and that the appeal decision is final under China’s system. “Speaking with diplomats [...]

England’s High Court of Justice on Friday ruled that Australia-based company BHP Mining was liable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil over a decade ago—which caused the country’s worst environmental disaster—despite the company not owning the dam then. In delivering the long-awaited decision, Justice Finola O’Farrell held that the collapse, which killed [...]

US President Donald Trump asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with former US President Bill Clinton in a Truth Social post on Friday. Trump’s Truth Social post stated: Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and [...]