Category: Human Rights

They are watching rising temperatures, vanishing food sources, devastating wildfires and the accelerating loss of ancestral territory – but they are also claiming new space online, using social media, music, photography and dance as tools of resistance. Ahead of the UN day celebrating the world’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, three young Indigenous leaders shared how […]

Liberia’s government announced on August 5 the elimination of all school registration fees from kindergarten through grade 6, beginning with the new school year on September 7. The decision removes one of the biggest barriers to schooling for hundreds of thousands of children. A recent Human Rights Watch report, “Without Education, There Will Be Nothing,” documents […]

Ethiopian authorities are intensifying their assault on media freedom in the country. On August 1, unidentified security personnel detained Yonas Kedir, the editor-in-chief of the Addis Standard, and questioned him for 24 hours about the independent news outlet’s reporting before releasing him, according to a statement by the outlet. The following day, security and intelligence […]

Representatives Delia Ramirez and Hank Johnnson, both members of US Congress, held a shadow hearing on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of technology on July 15. Witnesses at the hearing detailed how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is building an increasingly vast network of interconnected data collection and processing systems. ICE reportedly relies […]

That’s according to the Designated Human Rights Expert for Haiti, William O’Neill, who spoke to UN News ahead of the release of a new report which reveals that at least 542 people were killed and another 355 were injured in just two neighbourhoods of the capital, Port-au-Prince, during a 3.5-month period up to June 20. At least […]

The Israeli military’s April 22, 2026 attacks in Lebanon that killed one journalist and severely injured another included apparently deliberate attacks on civilians which would make them war crimes. Israeli forces’ continued killing of journalists shows a brazen willingness to commit atrocities without any fear of consequences. The Lebanese government should accede to the Rome […]

Hungary’s parliament on July 28 adopted legislation establishing the National Asset Recovery and Protection Office (Nemzeti Vagyonvisszaszerzési és Vagyonvédelmi Hivatal, NVVH), a key element of the government’s efforts to investigate mismanagement of public assets, recover assets allegedly transferred unlawfully under previous governments, and prevent future abuses. The final legislation incorporates important judicial safeguards for rights that were […]

The city of Izumisano in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture announced on July 27 that it would create a new nyujiin—an infant care institution for children under age 3—for the estimated 40 babies it expects to receive annually. The proposed facility is part of an initiative to provide women who decide to give up their newborns with options […]

Although Mr. Andrews was able to meet freely with local human rights advocates and people displaced by Cambodia’s ongoing border conflict with Thailand, he said many are imprisoned for exercising their political rights, prisons remain overcrowded and some senior government officials remain involved in cyberscam operations.  “My first mission to Cambodia has left me with deep concerns: for displaced people along […]

The proceedings “offer renewed hope that justice may finally be achieved through effective international cooperation,” said Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.  She noted that the action taken comes after years in which women’s testimonies and experiences had been ignored or dismissed by law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities.  Call for justice  “Given the scale of the alleged offences, and the Tate […]