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Independent human rights experts have issued a stark warning, calling on India to immediately put an end to its practice of arbitrary and punitive demolitions that disproportionately affect low-income households, minorities, and migrants. According to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to...
Amnesty International expressed concerns on Tuesday regarding the recurrent drone strikes conducted by Pakistan’s military, which caused unlawful loss of civilian lives. The rights group stated that these strikes in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa resulted in the deaths of 17 people this...
UK Secretary of State Yvette Cooper announced on Monday that the British government will be categorizing activist group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 in reaction to the group’s damaging of military planes on a British base on Friday...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave alarm on Saturday following the US’s recent airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, warning of an escalating cycle of violence that could further destabilize the Middle East. Guterres urged all parties to exercise maximum restraint and...
A UN expert reported Tuesday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that organized criminal activity has displaced at least 1.2 million people globally in 2024, creating a neglected humanitarian crisis with profound legal implications.
Special Rapporteur Paula Gaviria Betancur outlined how...
The Government of Panama declared a state of emergency in “the entire province of Bocas del Toro” on Friday, in an ad hoc cabinet meeting, in the background of escalating civil unrest opposing Law 462, implemented on March 18 to reform the social security system. The declaration temporarily...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said that the bodies of three Israeli hostages were recovered from Gaza. Netanyahu stated that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, the country’s internal security agency, managed to successfully bring back the bodies of Yonatan...
Engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham returned home to South Africa on Sunday after serving more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on allegedly arbitrary drug trafficking charges, according to a 2024 conclusion of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Potgieter and Huxham...
The UN secretary-general condemned on Sunday an attack against the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) that killed a Zambian peacekeeper and wounded another.
António Guterres voiced concerns over the targeting of UN peacekeepers in the CAR. In a statement, Guterres...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for civilians. His statement came in light of the hostilities between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and...
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