Category: Human Rights

In two months, the FIFA Club World Cup, an international football tournament for club teams, will kick off in the United States, serving as a testing ground for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup next year. But FIFA has inexcusably not put a clear and comprehensive child safeguarding framework in place to protect children from […]

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has reportedly fallen seriously ill after over 50 days on hunger strike in Egyptian custody. His family disclosed that he has experienced repeated vomiting and is receiving medical attention for suspected stomach and intestinal damage. Since initiating the strike on March 1, following news of his mother Laila Soueif’s own […]

Nation States Step In: A New Era for Protecting Citizens Abroad Amid Rising Hostilities As immigration policies tighten and deportations rise across the globe—particularly in the United States—foreign nationals increasingly find themselves vulnerable to harsh treatment and legal precarity. While international courts and human rights frameworks often lack the teeth to offer swift remedies, a […]

Organised by the UN human rights office, the week-long session “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,” will echo global calls for reparations for the historical legacies of enslavement and colonialism. “Let us recommit to ending racism -everywhere, in all its forms- in defence of the […]

A court in St. Petersburg has sentenced 19-year-old Russian activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for “discrediting the armed forces” after she protested the war in Ukraine by quoting a 19th-century Ukrainian poem, according to multiple independent media reports and human rights groups. Kozyreva, who began her activism in 2022—the […]

A Tunisian court has sentenced 40 opposition figures to prison terms ranging from 13 to 66 years in what has been widely criticized as a politically motivated trial. The defendants, including former diplomats, journalists, and political activists, were convicted under charges of “conspiracy against the internal and external security of the state” and forming a […]

Vietnam’s government has intensified its suppression of dissent, increasingly targeting ordinary citizens and activists for peacefully expressing concerns about state policies and public officials. Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted this alarming trend in its report titled “We’ll All Be Arrested Soon’: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s ‘Infringing of State Interests’ Law,” released today. The Weaponization of […]

A harmful bill in the Texas legislature would criminalize transporting youth younger than 18, or funding their transportation, out of state to access abortion without written parental consent.  The legislation, Senate Bill (SB) 2352 and House Bill (HB) 4595, aims to stop young people from getting abortions by making it a second-degree felony, punishable with fines […]

Indigenous Peoples are still excluded from decisions regarding “the very foundation of our identity, survival, and self-determination,” said Aluki Kotierk, Chair of the 24th United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). This year’s theme is focused on implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and addressing associated challenges – emphasising the need for Indigenous Peoples […]

(Washington, DC) – Increasing violence in Haiti by criminal groups and clashes with “self-defense” groups are contributing to the dangerous insecurity facing the country’s population, Human Rights Watch said today. Criminal groups have been tightening their grip on Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and expanding into other regions. Opposition leaders and “self-defense” groups have led violent protests against the […]