Category: Human Rights

(Brussels, April 14, 2025) – Frontex, the European Union’s Border and Coast Guard agency, should ensure that its aerial surveillance capacity is used to save lives at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization met with Frontex Executive Director Hans Leijtens on April 2, 2025, to deliver an EU-wide petition calling on the agency to […]

Despite the military’s announcement of a ceasefire, attacks have continued across the country, exacerbating an already dire situation, UN human rights chief Volker Türk warned on Friday. “In the days following the deadly earthquake that tore through central Myanmar last week, the Myanmar military continued operations and attacks, including airstrikes – some of which were […]

Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displacement camp near North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher. The camp hosts at least half a million people who have fled past and present violence and abuse in Darfur.  In recent days, hundreds of desperate civilians […]

The Commission has announced today €282.5 million in EU humanitarian aid to address the needs of the most vulnerable people in Chad, Sudan and neighbouring countries. Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib is today in Chad, where she is visiting several EU-funded projects in the country, including those assisting Sudanese refugees. In […]

In a landmark decision underscoring judicial limits on executive immigration powers, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s directive that federal authorities must return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March 2025. Abrego Garcia, who had been living legally in the U.S. for over […]

“At a moment when the sole focus should be on ensuring humanitarian aid gets to disaster zones, the military is instead launching attacks,” spokesperson Ravini Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. Since the 28 March disaster, military forces have reportedly carried out over 120 attacks, she said, and more than half occurred after a declared ceasefire […]

The estimates are from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, which on Friday called for increased funding to support Syrian returnees as needs intensify at a time when aid budgets globally are being slashed. “Since the fall of the Assad regime, returning home and starting anew has become a possibility for Syrians,” said UNHCR spokesperson Céline […]

Bangkok, April 2025 – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Thai authorities to immediately release Paul Chambers, a U.S. academic detained on charges of lèse majesté and cybercrime, citing serious concerns over freedom of expression and academic liberty. Chambers, a political analyst and university lecturer long associated with Thai military and political studies, was […]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Beijing to immediately release Taiwanese publisher Li Yanhe—known by his pen name Fu Cha—following his secret sentencing in China earlier this year. Detained since March 2023, Li’s case has raised serious concerns over freedom of expression, the rule of law, and China’s broader crackdown on dissent, particularly among […]

On April 5, 2025, Pakistani authorities arrested the father of Beebow Baloch, a prominent Baloch human rights defender and member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC). He is currently detained at the Hudda District Prison in Balochistan under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order Act (MPO). His daughter, Beebow Baloch, has been held […]