Category: Human Rights

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home,” said Anna Fierst, quoting her great-grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech of 1958, in which she highlighted the number of ordinary citizens determined to be active in their local neighbourhoods, schools, and factories. “Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning […]

Labor activist Wang Jianbing was released from prison on Tuesday after serving three and a half years for “inciting subversion of state power,” a charge he faced in 2021 under Chinese law. Wang was arrested alongside fellow activist Huang (Sophia) Xueqin, a prominent #MeToo advocate. While both were convicted on similar charges, Wang was sentenced […]

In a landmark decision on Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Türkiye violated the right to a fair trial in the case of Mustafa Aydın, a journalist convicted of membership in an armed terrorist organization. The court criticized the Turkish judiciary for failing to provide adequate reasoning for Aydın’s conviction and […]

Amnesty International has raised significant concerns following the Peruvian Congress’s approval of an amendment to Law 27692, which establishes the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI). The amendment has sparked fears that it could severely restrict the operations of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, particularly those advocating for human rights. The amendment grants authorities […]

Amnesty International has raised alarm over the widespread use of Paragon Solutions’ Graphite spyware to target journalists and human rights activists across Europe, urging immediate regulatory action to safeguard civil liberties. This follows a report by Citizen Lab, which uncovered a growing spyware crisis, raising serious concerns about privacy, surveillance, and government accountability. Graphite spyware, […]

Amnesty International has raised alarm over the escalating human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following the capture of Goma by the M23 rebel group, backed by Rwanda, in January. The organization calls for urgent international intervention to ensure adherence to International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in the conflict zone. Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty’s […]

On March 18, 2025, a Thai government delegation traveled to China’s Xinjiang region to assess the welfare of 40 Uyghur men who were repatriated from Thailand in February. This move comes amid mounting international criticism, including sanctions from the United States, regarding Thailand’s decision to send the Uyghurs back to China, despite widespread reports of […]

On Tuesday, the well-known political activist and journalist Idrissa Barry was arrested by men claiming to be gendarmes in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, sparking fears he has been forcibly disappeared. Barry, 48, is the national secretary of the opposition political group Servir et Non se Servir (“To Serve and Not Serve Oneself,” or SENS). According […]

Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, was rocked by violence Tuesday when police opened fire on a crowd during a protest called by opposition leader Venancio Mondlane. According to AFP journalists and witnesses, two individuals were killed in the clash. The protest, the first significant demonstration organized by Mondlane in weeks, was sparked by grievances over the October […]

The EU hosted the third humanitarian Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on Sudan on 13 March 2025. The meeting, held in Brussels, gathered humanitarian donors, United Nations (UN) agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and Sudanese local responders. Close to 2 years since the beginning of the conflict, the humanitarian […]