A prohibition on lawyers, journalists and members of the public from observing the trial of jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is arbitrary and unfounded, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. Benjamin Ward, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at HRW, asserted that the lack of transparency violates İmamoğlu’s right to a fair trial, stating: The [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday expressed concern over the targeted shooting of an Ecuadoran journalist and called on authorities to continue investigating the matter. The group reported that two gunmen shot journalist José Vinces in the stomach while he investigated a tip that human remains lay abandoned in the Huaquillas cemetery. Vinces [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday reported a devastating attack on Al Deain Teaching Hospital in Sudan that resulted in numerous deaths and injuries. The March 20 attack in in East Darfur’s capital, Al Deain, killed over 64 people, including 13 children, as well as nurses, a doctor, and patients. Eighty-nine people were additionally [...]

The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday over claims that the school is violating the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students, an escalation of the government’s year-long clash with the Ivy League university. The complaint alleges that Harvard failed to enforce its campus policies against hostile demonstrations targeting Jewish and Israeli students. It [...]

The 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) opened at the United Nations headquarters in New York in March 9, bringing together global leaders, diplomats, judges, advocates, and civil society organizations under the theme “Rights. Justice. Action. For All Women and Girls.” The day’s proceedings made clear that while progress on [...]

In January, Romania passed controversial amendments to its anti-extremism legislation, sparking protests over free speech concerns that remain unresolved today.  In January, protests took place in Bucharest and several other Romanian cities after lawmakers proposed amendments to the country’s anti-extremism legislation. Demonstrators gathered in central Bucharest raising concerns that the amendments could restrict freedom of [...]

On March 19, Justice Lawrence Mugambi of the High Court of Kenya delivered a landmark judgment affirming that mobile phone numbers form an integral part of an individual’s digital identity and are protected under the constitutional right to privacy. The decision arose from a petition filed by Erastus Ngura Odhiambo, an inmate who challenged the [...]

On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the federal government’s practice of turning away asylum-seekers at ports of entry along the US–Mexico border. In Noem v. Al Otro Lado, the government contends that turning asylum-seekers away is within the bounds of federal law and is a critical tool for managing [...]

Two poets, Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba, remain imprisoned in Russia as of Friday, on charges related to their reading of anti-war poems. This has been an ongoing matter since December 2023, when a Moscow court sentenced Kamardin to seven years and Shtovba to five and a half years in prison. The court declared both [...]

Over 650 delegates, from over 33 countries and 120 organizations, arrived in Cuba on Saturday, bringing 20 tons of aid. The Nuestra América Convoy, named for the famous essay by Cuban nationalist José Marti, arrived in Havana to break the US embargo. Inspired by the Global Sumud Flotilla, which attempted to bring aid to Gaza [...]