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 [...]
Human Rights Watch Friday called on Latin America, the United States and Europe to take action to protect the right to vote in Venezuela in the lead-up to the country’s presidential election Sunday, amidst numerous reports of arbitrary disqualifications of opposition candidates, arbitrary arrests and restrictions to civic space. In June 2023, former opposition party [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday setting guidelines for the removal of homeless encampments by state agencies and departments while requesting that local governments adopt the policies as well. The order will require state agencies under Newsom’s authority to address homeless encampments on state property and set five explicit policies to follow [...]
Human rights organization Amnesty International called Thursday for the unconditional release of anti-corruption protestors detained by Ugandan authorities. The protestors were part of a march over the rise in corruption in the Ugandan Parliament. Tigere Chagutah of Amnesty International condemned the arrest of over a hundred young protestors in Uganda during the anti-corruption protests, calling it [...]
In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 [...]
