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A group of 20 human rights organizations said on Monday that Bulgarian authorities should suspend plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia and allow his resettlement to a third country.
Al-Khalidi has been a human rights defender and prisoners’ rights...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, informed attendants of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday of the continuous accessibility barriers that people with disabilities, especially women, face.
Volker Türk contended that the international community failed to...
The spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, warned on Monday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to worsen as the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalates. Dujarric emphasized that humanitarian funding cuts have...
The Kurdish Human Rights Network in Syria, along with several Kurdish human rights organizations, issued a strong condemnation of the ongoing violence in Syria’s coastal region, calling for an immediate halt to ethnic cleansing and sectarian-based atrocities. The country is witnessing violence...
INTERPOL Manila arrested the former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday for the alleged crimes against humanity committed during the “war on drugs” campaign between 2011 and 2019.
According to the Philippines Presidential Communication Office, INTERPOL Manila arrested...
UNRWA released a report on Sunday on the human rights situation in Palestine from February 26 to March 4, in which the agency demanded that Israel lift its Gaza blockade to allow essential humanitarian access in compliance with its international humanitarian law (IHL) obligations and highlighted...
The K’ómoks First Nation of Vancouver Island overwhelmingly voted for a treaty and constitution granting self-governance on Saturday.
Regarding the recent vote, K’ómoks chief councilor Nicole Rempel stated:
83 percent of eligible voters within the First Nation voted to ratify the new...
Bahrain’s systematic practices of detaining and abusing children to quell dissents violate international law, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) on Monday.
Despite a 2024 royal pardon releasing over 1,500...
Amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that came into effect on February 17, 2025, fail to adequately protect women’s right to equality before the law and leave them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a release on Monday.
Various changes and retentions made...
Over 360 human rights organizations and activists, including the International Federation for Human Rights and eleven of its member groups, urged the EU to reject the proposed “Omnibus” directive, arguing that it would significantly weaken corporate sustainability laws.
The proposal, introduced...
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