María Corina Machado, a prominent figure in Venezuela’s opposition movement, was arrested by government security forces on Thursday as she left a political rally in the capital city, Caracas. The arrest marks a significant escalation in the ongoing political tension between the Venezuelan government and its critics. Machado, the leader of the Vente Venezuela party, […]
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Hadja Lahbib, Commissioner for Preparedness, Crisis Management and Equality, will visit Poland tomorrow and Saturday on 10-11 January. In particular, she will meet with the Minister of the Interior, Tomasz Siemoniak, and the Minister of Equality, Katarzyna Kotula, to discuss, inter alia, the future EU preparedness strategy and the roadmap on women’s rights. During her […]
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The global civil society alliance CIVICUS has called on Kenyan President William Ruto to urgently release 20 protesters reported missing following recent civil unrest in the country. In a statement released on Wednesday, CIVICUS expressed grave concern over the systematic pattern of violence and repression directed at dissenters in Kenya, particularly focusing on the abduction […]
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Amnesty International has condemned the murder of Lim Kimya, a former member of Cambodia’s opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), who was shot and killed in Bangkok on Tuesday. Lim Kimya, a vocal critic of the Cambodian government, was traveling from Siem Reap, Cambodia, with his wife and uncle when a gunman ambushed him. According […]
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Thirteen civilians were killed, and 110 injured, when two aerial bombs struck an industrial facility in the southern city. This marks the largest number of casualties HRMMU has recorded since a residential building in Dnipro city was struck on 14 January 2023, and the deadliest since a supermarket in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, was hit on […]
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The text of the following joint statement was released by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union and the Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. We are deeply concerned […]
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Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist detained in Iran since December 19, has been released and is on her way back to Italy, following intensive diplomatic efforts. A plane carrying Sala took off from Tehran after significant work by Italian authorities through both diplomatic and intelligence channels. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed the news, informing […]
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(Beirut) – The Lebanese government on January 8, 2025 unlawfully deported Abdulrahman Youssef al-Qardawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he faces a near-certain unfair trial and serious risks of other abuses including torture, Human Rights Watch said today. Lebanese authorities initially arrested al-Qardawi on December 28, 2024 at the Masnaa […]
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On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially declared that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed genocide during the ongoing civil conflict, marking a grim chapter in Sudan’s history. This declaration follows the tragic legacy of the Darfur genocide in the early 2000s, making it the second such case of […]
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Greece violated several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of a Turkish national, A.R.E., who sought asylum in Greece after fleeing persecution in Turkey. The court found that Greece had unlawfully engaged in pushbacks, a practice where asylum […]
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