Category: Human Rights

Countries will resume negotiations in Geneva on August 5, 2025, on a global plastics treaty. Previous talks have stalled amid deep divisions over key issues. To make the treaty meaningful, countries need to tackle plastic pollution at its source by limiting production, including by phasing out fossil fuels and subsidies. Each year, more than 400 million tonnes of plastics […]

Chad is currently grappling with one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies in Africa, hosting over 1.8 million displaced individuals, including 1.2 million Sudanese refugees who have fled escalating violence in Sudan. This influx has placed immense strain on Chad’s already fragile infrastructure and limited resources. With 42% of its population living below the poverty […]

New York, 2 August 2025 — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued a stark warning about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, reporting that children are dying at an unprecedented rate due to famine and conflict-related conditions. The warning comes amid Israel’s continued military operations, which officials say will persist until all hostages […]

Luanda, Angola — August 3, 2025Amnesty International has called on Angolan authorities to launch an independent and impartial investigation into the deaths of 22 individuals during a national taxi drivers’ strike that began on July 29, 2025. The organization condemned what it described as the excessive and lethal use of force by state security agents […]

The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge. The asylum minister, Angela Eagle, said that the decision was because this experimental technology is likely to be the cheapest option. Experimenting with unproven technology to […]

(Beirut) – Iranian authorities used a “guillotine machine” to amputate fingers of three detained men in the late hours of July 30, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The three men, Hadi Rostami, 38, Mehdi Sharifian, 42, and Mehdi Shahivand, 29, had been convicted of theft after grossly unfair trials.  An informed source told Human Rights Watch […]

Between the beginning of April and the end of June, armed violence in Haiti has killed 1,520 people and injured 609 more, according to a new report on human rights in Haiti which was released on Friday.   These numbers are similar to those from the first quarter of 2025 when 1,617 people were killed […]

US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths. The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war—a war crime—as well as Israel’s continued intentional deprivation of aid and basic services, which amounts […]

Luxembourg, 1 August 2025 — The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that while Italy may continue to fast-track the deportation of rejected asylum seekers to countries it designates as “safe,” such procedures must be subject to judicial oversight and meet strict legal standards. The decision stems from a case involving two Bangladeshi nationals […]