Category: Human Rights

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care. While some were released, they say they remain under constant surveillance. Hundreds are still in prison. The living conditions they were protesting have not improved. Governments […]

Left vulnerable, communities then formed self-defence groups and Haitian security forces reinforced their operations and made small gains only to be rebuffed again by gangs. And at all stages of this cycle, human rights violations are being committed against civilians, according to a report released on Friday by the UN office in Haiti (BINUH) and […]

📍 Geneva, July 11, 2025 — The number of journalists killed worldwide has risen sharply in the first six months of 2025, with 86 media workers reported dead across 26 countries, marking a 16% increase compared to the same period last year, according to the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). 🕊️ Conflict Zones Drive Casualties The […]

As armed clashes intensify and conditions worsen inside Myanmar, thousands continue to cross the border seeking safety in the overcrowded camps of Cox’s Bazar, where nearly one million Rohingya refugees already live in densely populated camps. “This is the largest movement of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh since 2017,” said Babar Baloch, spokesperson for the UN […]

On July 12, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is traveling to Beijing for another “annual leaders’ meeting” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. They will discuss global and regional issues as well as bilateral matters of trade and tourism.  The Australian government’s statement announcing the visit doesn’t mention human rights at all. It only makes a vague […]

Since April 2025, internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in North Darfur, Sudan, have come under severe attack, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, displacing hundreds of thousands of the camp populations across various locations in North and Central Darfur states and leading to an increase in arrivals to Chad. This has placed an […]

They’re calling for the decision to be reversed, warning it could undermine the wider international human rights system. The sanctions were announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday under a Presidential Executive Order. Mr. Rubio alleged that Ms. Albanese had “directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, […]

The move, currently being debated in the Greek Parliament, would halt asylum registration for three months and allow for the return of new arrivals without assessing their claims. It follows a recent rise in landings on the southern islands of Gavdos and Crete. While acknowledging the strain of managing new arrivals, UNHCR said such measures […]

📍 Conakry, July 9, 2025 — A coalition of 25 Guinean and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, has called on Guinea’s military authorities to urgently disclose the whereabouts of civil society activists Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, who were forcibly disappeared exactly one year ago. The activists, both senior members of the […]

📍 El Fasher, North Darfur — July 9, 2025The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Sudanese authorities to immediately release freelance journalists Nasr Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar, who were detained on July 7 by the Sudan Liberation Movement–Transitional Council (SLM–TC), an armed group affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). 🛑 Incident […]