Category: Human Rights

May 16, 2025 — As the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama approaches this Saturday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has renewed calls for China to release Gendun Choekyi Nyima and his parents, who have been missing since 1995, shortly after the Dalai Lama recognized the then six-year-old boy as the reincarnation […]

Beaver, West Virginia – May 16, 2025 — A former lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for orchestrating a cover-up of a fatal assault on an inmate by correctional officers under his supervision. Chad Lester, the former supervisor, was convicted in January […]

(New York) – Chadian authorities arrested Succès Masra, the former prime minister and leader of Chad’s main opposition party, at his residence in N’Djamena early on May 16, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Masra’s arrest raises concerns of escalating harassment and threats against the opposition party Les Transformateurs (The Transformers) as well as other political […]

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the launch of its first-ever dedicated homepage for its AI for Individual Rights initiatives, marking a major step in leveraging artificial intelligence to support freedom and democracy. This pioneering program is believed to be the world’s first to expose how autocratic regimes use AI as a tool of […]

In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger – an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023 – while the number of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger reaches a record high. Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for the sixth consecutive year in 2024, pushing millions […]

OHCHR has urged Israel to stop all extrajudicial executions and other unlawful use of force and ensure all those responsible are brought to justice. Over the last two weeks, Israeli security forces killed two Palestinian men in planned summary executions, while seven others were killed in conditions that raise concerns over the use of unnecessary […]

15 May 2025 – Warsaw – The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, has expressed deep concern over the sentencing of Rukhshona Khakimova, an investigative journalist and member of the National Association of Independent Mass Media of Tajikistan, to eight years in prison on treason charges. She urged Tajik authorities to grant […]

Amnesty International has strongly condemned the life sentence handed down by a military court in Cameroon against prominent peace activist Abdu Karim Ali, denouncing it as an “affront to justice” and calling for his immediate and unconditional release. Ali was sentenced on April 16 by a military tribunal in Yaoundé to life imprisonment on charges […]

WARSAW, 15 May 2025 – In a move that has alarmed international human rights organizations, a Moscow court has sentenced Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent Russian election monitoring group Golos, to five years in a penal colony. In addition to his prison term, Melkonyants has received a nine-year ban on public activities, effectively preventing […]

As hostilities escalate across South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council should renew its arms embargo on the country. The council should also act to prevent additional weapons from reaching the warring parties and foreign forces from adding to the violations. In recent months, government forces have attacked populated areas, often using helicopter gunfire and […]