Category: Human Rights

Nearly 90 journalists have been physically assaulted in Serbia over the past year amid widespread anti-government protests, prompting international condemnation and a formal reprimand from the European Parliament. Violence Against Media Amid Political Unrest According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), at least 89 journalists have been physically attacked in Serbia since November 2024, when the […]

Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York – the first time the mission has presented findings to the General Assembly – chairperson Sara Hossain said that conditions have deteriorated since the Israeli airstrikes, which reportedly killed over 1,000 people. According to Iranian Government figures, 276 civilians, including 38 children and 102 women, were among the […]

(São Paulo) – Police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including 4 police officers, during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The raid affected low-income, primarily Black neighborhoods.  Police did not preserve crime […]

On 6 October 2025, the EU and Denmark co-organised a Senior officials meeting (SOM) on the Sahel and Lake Chad.  The objective of the meeting, which was held in hybrid format from Dakar (Senegal) and hosted 164 participants was twofold:  to validate a shared diagnosis of issues at stake in the region (Benin, Burkina Faso, […]

More than 60 people have reportedly been killed in the continuing series of attacks since early September “in circumstances that find no justification in international law,” Volker Türk said in a statement. He urged the US to halt its “unacceptable” operations and take measures to prevent the “extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever […]

Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN human rights office has received “horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement,” said Seif Magango, spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR). Speaking from Nairobi to journalists in […]

The United Nations has raised alarm over escalating violence in Cameroon following contested presidential election results, urging restraint, accountability, and adherence to international human rights standards. OHCHR Statement on Escalating Tensions On 30 October 2025, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed deep concern over the violent unrest that erupted […]

(New York) – The Chinese government has announced it is investigating the Taiwanese legislator Puma Shen Pao-Yang (沈伯洋) for the crime of “separatism,” infringing upon his basic human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.  The government said Shen was being investigated under China’s judiciary guidelines on “punishing Taiwan independence separatists,” making Shen the first person from Taiwan known to […]

It marks the third large-scale combined strike in October on energy facilities in civilian areas – leading to major power outages. At least two more civilians were killed – with 23 injured, including six children – in Zaporizhzhia, which was reportedly hit by over eight ballistic missiles and 20 drones. A seven-year-old girl is among […]

No member of the Eswatini security forces has been held accountable for deploying tasers, teargas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition against participants and passers-by in the June 2021 pro-democracy protests. Over four years have passed since scores of students, activists, and passers-by were killed, and hundreds more injured, and many victims are in difficult situations […]