Mobs in South Africa have looted foreign-owned shops, forced migrants out of townships and displaced tens of thousands of African nationals, conduct that breaches the equality and dignity guarantees of the country’s own constitution and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and that repudiates the Pan-African solidarity that sustained the anti-apartheid struggle. At [...]

A group of 25 mainly democratic states on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest attempt to implement sweeping global tariffs. The lawsuit, filed in the International Trade Court (CIT), argues that the tariffs are arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the law under which they were ostensibly imposed. President Trump invoked the tariffs in [...]

INTERPOL announced on Monday that it has released a new report entitled “African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026,” which reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) now drives over 55 percent of cybercrime across Africa, with financial losses doubling to $484 million since 2024. In commenting on the significance of the report, the director for cybercrime at INTERPOL, [...]

Machine-generated text reconstructed from brain activity is now accurate enough to approximate what a person heard, imagined or attempted to say. This is a capability that, offered as criminal evidence, would let prosecutors put words in a defendant’s mouth while bypassing nearly every safeguard the Federal Rules of Evidence builds around human testimony. Federal rulemakers [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban’s resurgence, the group has fostered a hostile environment and spurred one of the world’s worst human rights crises. HRW called on governments around the world to take decisive action as opposed to passively providing condolences, stating that the international response [...]

A $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund established to pay people who say the government unjustly prosecuted them was rescinded Sunday night. But the settlement between President Donald Trump and his own Justice Department that created the fund remains unchanged. The order, dated August 2 and signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned a deadly airstrike by the Russia’s-Africa Corps in central Mali, saying the strike appeared to be an arbitrary attack that may have violated international humanitarian law. The Russian government-controlled Africa Corps launched the airstrike that killed eight civilians, including three children, on June 15. The strike hit the [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday called on authorities in Thailand to take urgent measures to address a wave of online death threats and harassment against members of parliament Angkhana Neelaphaijit and Romadon Panjor, as well as human rights activist Anchana Heemmina, after they protested actions of the Thai military and expressed their support for the [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced economic sanctions against six “entities” (businesses and individuals) that it accuses of supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The companies are based in China, Russia, India and Iran. The IRGC is Iran’s military and one of the most powerful forces [...]

The European Commission on Friday announced that its AI Office in Brussels and national regulators will begin enforcing key provisions of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, including new duties to identify deepfakes, label AI-generated material and oversee risks linked to powerful AI systems. This move gives EU regulators greater power to inspect advanced AI models, [...]