The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released a report Friday revealing that global progress toward gender parity in national parliaments has slowed to its lowest rate in nearly a decade. Released ahead of International Women’s Day, the “Women in Parliament in 2025” report indicates that women held 27.5 percent of parliamentary seats worldwide as of January 1, [...]
Amnesty International on Friday warned that the Israeli military’s sweeping evacuation orders across Lebanon sow panic and worsen humanitarian suffering after orders covering more than 100 locales in the country’s south and east, and the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. The organization said warnings provide insufficient guidance for civilians [...]
On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, “Jim Crow Must Go.” He had returned from a civil rights meeting where he’d discussed voter registration strategies. A bullet struck him moments later, fired by a white [...]
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday sentenced in absentia 47 leaders and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to 10 years imprisonment on terrorism charges. Judge Amjad Ali Shah of the Anti-Terrorism Court-1 in Rawalpindi sentenced the 47 on charges under 21-L of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997. [...]
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged authorities in Iran to lift restrictions on internet and communication services, citing concerns that civilians are being left unable to access potentially lifesaving information in the midst of the armed conflict with the US and Israel. Tomiwa Ilori, senior technology researcher at Human Rights Watch, stated: “Shutting down the internet [...]
The UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria (COI) announced on Friday that it has completed an in-country mission to Damascus as it prepares to brief the Council in Geneva on March 13. The Commission said it pressed Syria’s transitional authorities on accountability, institutional reform, and protections for civil society amid renewed regional [...]
A UN expert on Friday warned of the “gradual erosion of rights” of activists and human rights defenders in Sweden, with ongoing restrictions on their ability to exercise their freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner [...]
A United Nations expert warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution and protect the right to a healthy environment. In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy, and [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday called on Ethiopian authorities to investigate allegations of sexual violence and torture committed by fighters of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in the country’s Oromia region. According to Amnesty International, women and girls in the region have reportedly been subjected to serious abuses such as rape and other forms of sexual [...]
A group of UN experts warned Friday that the genocide in Gaza is spilling into the West Bank as a wider war engulfs the region. The experts argued that Israeli policy is designed to coerce Palestinians to leave both territories. The report also covered occupied East Jerusalem, where between 2021 and 2025 there have been [...]
