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India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed that canines picked up in the country’s National Capital Region (NCR) be sterilized, vaccinated, dewormed, and then released back to the localities from which they were taken, in line with the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023.
A three-judge bench...
UN experts expressed deep concern on Thursday over the continuous violence against the Druze population in the Sweida region in Syria.
Since mid-July, these UN experts have received reports of “killings, enforced disappearances, abductions, looting, destruction of property, and sexual and...
A report released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on Friday found that a “famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate” and is “rapidly spreading.” Multiple international organizations have renewed their calls for an immediate ceasefire to facilitate an...
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Alice Jill Edwards, alongside other human rights experts, delivered a dossier on Thursday of sexual torture allegations to the Russian Federation detailing the cases of 10 Ukrainian civilians abused in occupied regions of Ukraine, including Kherson, Kharkiv, and...
A UN expert called for more protection for victims displaced by terrorism and related security operations during the eighth commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on Thursday.
The UN special rapporteur on the protection of human rights...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged on Wednesday that Kurdish authorities release Iraqi Kurdish journalist Sherwan Sherwani after a court extended his prison sentence, stating, “Sentencing Sherwani for a third time on dubious charges and imposing the maximum penalty shows the...
A coalition of Rwanda-allied armed groups on Wednesday committed a range of atrocities that violate international humanitarian law against civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some of which include the gang rapes of women, according to Amnesty International.
In a new...
The UN Assistant Secretary General for Africa, Martha Pobee, raised concerns on Monday about the dire humanitarian situation in South Sudan, while briefing the UN Security Council on the humanitarian and security situations in the country. She urged the international community to act and assist...
Dr. Victoria McCloud, the UK’s first openly transgender judge, lodged an appeal on Monday with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against a Supreme Court ruling that defined “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 solely by biological criteria, excluding transgender women with Gender...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the Kazakh government on Monday to reinstate accreditation for 16 journalists of the US government-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). This comes ahead of the outlet’s pending appeal hearing.
CPJ’s Europe and Central...
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