Category: Human Rights

In a dramatic operation on Friday, Libya’s Criminal Investigation Agency rescued 263 illegal immigrants from a notorious trafficking gang operating in the Al-Wahat district. The victims, primarily from Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia, had been subjected to horrific abuse, including torture, malnutrition, and sexual violence, at the hands of the traffickers. The rescued migrants, many of […]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has introduced an Ethics Council aimed at providing advisory support on matters of judicial ethics. The initiative, announced on January 29, 2025, reflects the court’s ongoing commitment to maintaining high ethical standards among its judges and ensuring transparency and accountability within its operations. The Ethics Council, formally established […]

In the midst of escalating violence in the region, humanitarian aid to Goma, a key city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has become a critical issue. Both Rwandan forces and the M23 armed group must urgently facilitate the safe delivery of aid to the civilians suffering in the area. The international community is calling […]

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan has reached catastrophic levels, with thousands of people now “starving to death” amid ongoing political turmoil and conflict. According to Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a senior expert at Human Rights, who has been closely monitoring Sudanese political and security issues since 2010, the situation is dire. Gallopin, who spoke exclusively to us, […]

(Nairobi) – Rwandan forces and the abusive M23 armed group should urgently ensure access to and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the population of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent fighting and the shelling of medical infrastructure in the city, which the M23 captured on January […]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Kazakhstan to act on the recommendations issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held on Thursday. The council, consisting of 103 state delegates, presented 294 recommendations covering a wide range of human rights concerns, including civil and political rights, gender-based […]

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they “must also examine the present and look to the future”. ‘Hateful rhetoric’ reverberating Underlying the rise of hateful rhetoric, with rising antisemitism on the streets and online, the UN rights […]

Mohammad Reza Faghihi, a prominent human rights lawyer and advocate, began serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran on January 21, 2025. Faghihi was convicted on charges of “gathering and collusion with the intention of acting against national security” following his involvement in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests that took place in late 2022. Faghihi, […]

Ethiopian authorities have come under heavy criticism for suspending two prominent human rights organizations, the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center, in December 2024. The move is part of an escalating government crackdown on civil society, which critics say reflects a broader pattern of increasing repression against independent organizations. In […]

An Ontario judge has condemned the provincial policy requiring routine strip-searches of youth detainees, calling it a violation of constitutional rights. Justice David Stewart Rose ruled on Tuesday that the two teenage girls charged in the 2022 death of Kenneth Lee had their charter rights infringed upon due to the invasive searches. He found the […]