Category: Human Rights

(Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The Chinese government’s forced return of North Koreans puts them at high risk of torture, wrongful imprisonment, sexual violence, forced labor, and possible execution, in […]

In a statement on Wednesday, Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said that two days after world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh to endorse the US-led peace initiative, “this is a moment of great but precarious hope.” “It is also clear from the public response to the progress, that Palestinians, Israelis and people across the region […]

Al Hamriyah, UAE, 15 October 2025 — The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has condemned the ongoing abandonment of 19 seafarers from India, Bangladesh, and Ukraine aboard the oil tanker Global Peace, anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The vessel is owned by Glory International FZ-LLC, a UAE-based company placed under U.S. […]

On October 15, the Supreme Court will rehear Louisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in Congress. The question before the court is a crucial one: does creating majority-Black districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act amount to unconstitutional racial discrimination? In 2022, Louisiana lawmakers drew a […]

Phetchaburi, Thailand — Electronics manufacturer Cal-Comp Electronics, a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Kinpo Group, is facing scrutiny after 1,450 Myanmar migrant workers were reportedly forced to sign termination agreements under duress. Labour rights groups allege that workers were confined within the factory, threatened with arrest, and pressured to accept a lump-sum payment of 10,000 Thai baht […]

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has called for urgent international intervention to address a rapidly worsening crisis marked by armed violence, systemic corruption, and humanitarian collapse. Following a mission to the African Union headquarters, the Commission reported that armed clashes have intensified to levels not seen since the 2017 cessation […]

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A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often the case, incentivizes economic systems that value aggregate productivity, without reflecting environmental degradation, inequality or human rights. A new 14-member high-level expert group, appointed by […]

Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs voted to adopt its position amending the European Union’s landmark corporate accountability law that will seriously curtail efforts to mitigate the impact of businesses on human rights and the environment. The “Omnibus I” proposal severely undermines essential elements of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), adopted […]

The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan issued the warning at the conclusion of a mission to the Africa Union (AU) headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011, but deadly fighting broke out in late 2013 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and forces loyal […]