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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report Thursday containing Palestinian journalists’ first-hand accounts of torture in Israeli prisons.
The stories come from 59 testimonies of released journalists. Forty-eight of them were never charged with a crime, but detained...
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on Thursday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)’s mass killings and related atrocities committed during the October 2025 takeover of El Fasher region in Sudan showed “hallmarks of genocide” against Sudanese ethnic...
A French appeals court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to enforce compensation for Nicaraguan banana workers harmed by pesticides.
The Paris appeals court released a judgment stating that “the sums awarded to each claimant… are manifestly disproportionate.” This confirmed the decision of the...
More than 80 rights groups and individuals jointly called on British Columbia (BC) to recommit to implementing Indigenous rights on Wednesday.
In the statement, the groups urged the government not to amend the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and the...
President Bernardo Arévalo ended the nationwide state of siege in Guatemala on Monday, while maintaining joint military and police operations to combat organized crime and gangs. The move comes after a 30-day emergency period imposed in response to deadly prison riots and attacks that left 11...
UN experts on Wednesday expressed their disapproval of the National Police of the Irish Republic’s (Gardaí) acquisition and use of less-lethal weapons such as “double-strength pepper spray” and tasers for crowd control.
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of...
The Congress of Peru on Tuesday approved seven motions of censure against the President of Congress and Interim President of the Republic of Peru, José Jerí, over alleged corruption charges.
During a plenary session, 75 members of Congress voted in favor of removing José Jerí from office, with...
UN experts released a statement on Monday expressing concern over historic illegal intercountry child adoptions in Guatemala and allegations that Attorney General María Consuelo Porras had handled at least 80 Indigenous children who were eventually sent abroad.
Experts decried the current lack...
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) first major hearing in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is a critical first step toward ensuring justice for victims of his War on Drugs, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
The pre-trial proceedings are set for February...
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened an inquiry into social media platform X on Tuesday following reports that its AI chatbot has produced sexual deepfake images.
The DPC investigation concerns the apparent creation and dissemination “of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate...
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