Category: Human Rights

The European Commission launches today two initiatives under its Preparedness Union agenda: an EU Stockpiling Strategy and a Medical Countermeasures Strategy. Both are designed to improve access to essential goods for European citizens and societies, businesses and economies – ensuring continuity of essential goods and lifesaving medical supplies at all times, in particular during crises such […]

📍 Berlin, July 8, 2025 — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on German authorities to take urgent action to protect Basma Mostafa, an Egyptian investigative journalist living in exile in Berlin, from alleged transnational repression orchestrated by Egyptian state actors. Mostafa, who fled Egypt in 2020 after repeated arrests and threats linked to her […]

📍 Geneva, July 8, 2025 — Ahead of Vietnam’s fourth periodic review by the UN Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on UN member states to press the Vietnamese government for concrete reforms to end its crackdown on civil and political rights. The review, held on July 7–8, assesses Vietnam’s compliance with […]

July 9, 2025 – The Hague – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for their role in the systemic persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan. The warrants target Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, citing […]

July 9, 2025 – New York – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to immediately release Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran journalist detained at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in Georgia, despite a federal court order for his release. On July 1, an immigration judge granted Guevara […]

Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani cited Kenyan police reports of at least 11 deaths, 52 injured police officers, and 567 arrests. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights reported slightly different figures: at least 10 fatalities, 29 injuries, 37 arrests, and two abductions. Protests erupted in 16 counties, with police reportedly using live ammunition, rubber bullets, […]

Laws passed by Peru’s Congress have undermined the independence and capacity of judges and prosecutors to fight organized crime. Homicides, extortion, and illegal mining have exponentially grown in the last years, affecting the rights to life and physical integrity of Peruvians. As Peru pursues its accession process, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development should […]

On Friday, the UN Security Council heard sobering briefings from Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and Shayna Lewis, Sudan Specialist and Senior Advisor with Preventing and Ending Mass Atrocities (PAEMA), a US-based organization. Ms. Pobee stressed that front lines continue to shift as the RSF and SAF press on with their military objectives, […]

Białowieża Forest, Poland – July 2025 – In the dense, marshy terrain of Europe’s last primeval forest, humanitarian volunteers are racing against time to aid refugees stranded along the Polish-Belarusian border, where a four-year crisis has escalated into a humanitarian emergency. 🚧 A Border Fortified, But Not Impenetrable Since 2021, Poland has responded to Belarus’s […]

(Nairobi) – Central African Republic authorities arrested activists holding a memorial event for students who died in a high school explosion, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 27, 2025, civil society activists organized a vigil in memory of the students who died in the explosion on June 25 at Barthelemy Boganda High School in […]