A plane intended to carry several former Latin American heads of state was not allowed to take off from Panama to Venezuela on Friday, with the presidents planning to monitor Sunday’s upcoming Venezuelan elections. The President of Panama, Jose Raul Mulino, said that the plane was denied permission to take off due to Venezuelan airspace [...]

Ugandan police forces announced on Saturday that 104 individuals have been arrested amid the ongoing anti-corruption protests in the African nation. Uganda’s Police Spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke stated, “Between July 22 and July 25, 2024, demonstrators attempted to #MarchToParliament in Kampala, leading to significant police intervention.” Rusoke confirmed that 100 of the individuals were already in [...]

An independent United Nations (UN) expert on Friday called on the Cambodian government to implement a national action plan to execute and safeguard the interests of the country’s indigenous communities. Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn was appointed as a special rapporteur to oversee and report on the human rights situation in Cambodia in March 2021. While commending [...]

Danielle Smith, the conservative premier of the western Canadian province of Alberta, re-confirmed on Monday that she will table amendments to the Alberta Human Rights Act to include vaccination status as a protected ground from discrimination. The amendment was a key campaign promise, along with the enactment of the Alberta Sovereignty Act, which allows the [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release on Friday stating that Russia must release activist Alexey Sokolov from detention and drop all charges against him. Sokolov was detained for his using “extremist symbols” on his Telegram channel and charged with “repeated demonstration of prohibited symbols” under Article [...]

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard denounced the rollback of human rights in Tunisia on Friday after a four-day visit where she met with several human rights defenders, civil society representatives, the Tunisian Judges Association, lawyers, political parties, journalists, victims of human rights violations and families of arbitrarily detained people. In response to her visit, [...]

The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation of Afghanistan announced on Thursday the extension of Proof of Registration (PoR) cards for Afghan refugees in Pakistan for another year. This decision, communicated by the Office of Afghan Immigrant Affairs in Islamabad, extends the validity of PoR cards from June 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. Despite assurances [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its decision in the case Ontario (Attorney General) v. Restoule on Friday, confirming that the Crown is required to negotiate and, failing agreement, compensate First Nations groups for breaching treaty obligations. The case considered the interpretation of treaties signed between the Anishinaabe of Lake Huron and Lake Superior [...]

The Supreme Court of the western US state of Nebraska on Friday upheld a state law that restricts gender-altering care for minors and limits abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state’s Republican Party-dominated unicameral legislature passed and the governor signed the Let Them Grow Act in May 2023. Before passing, the legislature had amended [...]

The European Court of Human Rights unanimously held that Latvia’s removal of applicant Tatjana Ždanoka from the candidate list for its 2018 parliamentary elections did not violate Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights, on Thursday. Ždanoka was barred on the grounds of Article 5(6) of Latvia’s Parliamentary Elections Act [...]