Category: Human Rights

(İstanbul, June 26, 2025) – An Istanbul court’s decision on June 19, 2025, to allow the detention of a leading defense lawyer for the jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appears to be in reprisal for his legal representation of his client, Human Rights Watch and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project said today. Turkish authorities […]

“From that day on, our home became a travel bag and our path became that of displacement … My childhood was filled with fear and anxiety and people I was deprived of,” she said, speaking via videoconference from Syria.   Sila, now 17, described her experiences during the Syrian Civil War to a meeting of […]

Between 2015 and 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre documented over 6,400 cases of human rights defenders facing attacks for speaking out against business-related harms—an average of nearly two incidents per day over the past decade. The findings, published in the Centre’s latest review titled Defending Rights for a Just Economy, highlight a […]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has strongly condemned the repeated use of lethal force by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinians attempting to access food aid in Gaza, describing the killings as “senseless” and “unlawful.” In a statement released Wednesday, the OHCHR highlighted several recent incidents in which […]

Today, she’s a qualified refugee and human rights lawyer in New Zealand – but on Tuesday she recalled the ordeal of becoming displaced aged 14 and described the harrowing limbo that followed. Invisible and alone “I grew up invisible to the world,” she said of her life in Afghanistan. “Without rights, opportunities, or safety.” That […]

Geneva | June, 2025 – Organized crime is a growing but under-recognized driver of forced displacement globally, responsible for displacing at least 1.2 million people in 2024 alone, according to a report delivered Tuesday by UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, at the UN Human Rights Council […]

Washington, D.C. | June 24, 2025 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted an emergency application from the federal government to stay a lower court injunction, enabling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to resume deporting migrants with minimal notice while litigation proceeds. The ruling—decided by a six-justice majority—temporarily lifts an April order from […]

(Seoul) – South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Lee Jae-myung. It is critically important for the government to bolster democratic institutions, end entrenched discrimination, protect digital rights, and promote North Koreans’ human rights. President Lee took […]

The European Union will deliver €20 million in humanitarian aid to support vulnerable refugees living in Türkiye. The funding will be channelled to humanitarian partners working in the country, in close cooperation with Turkish authorities, to address refugees’ basic needs such as protection, health, water and sanitation and education in emergencies.  The aid will target […]

Of the record 83 million people internally displaced worldwide, at least 1.2 million were displaced by crime-related violence in 2024 – more than double the 2023 figure – amid a global decline in support for international norms, human rights and the rule of law. The growing reach of organised crime in driving displacement and rights […]