Category: Human Rights

‘Good afternoon, I want to start with a simple message – thank you, this is a message for all of you, at my side or in the background. Dear Commissioner, dear Director-General, to the staff from the emergency response coordination centre (ERCC) and ECHO, thank you for being here when Europe needs you most. As […]

The committee is calling on States to implement comprehensive restorative justice, combining compensation, restitution, rehabilitation and structural reforms. The passage of time cannot serve as a pretext for States to refuse to recognise these historical injustices or to adopt “appropriate measures of restorative justice and accountability for these crimes”, according to the committee. Comprising 18 […]

The agency’s newest route-based data shows a startling spike in fatalities among people seeking a better life, from the Bay of Bengal to the Atlantic Ocean, many of them falling prey to traffickers or scams along the way.  “Attention tends to settle on a handful of routes, but nearly half of the world’s 304 million […]

A Dead Constitution: How Sudan’s Legal Guardrails Were Dismantled and Why War Was the Natural Trajectory Credit: Osama Elfaki Rubbing my face with all my might, raising my head just to breathe, I am running as fast as I can. The galloping of the crowd kicks sand into my eyes. Through the white smoke of […]

The UK Home Office is pushing ahead with plans to use AI technology to guess the age of young people arriving at UK borders to seek asylum, starting in 2027. Yet the Home Office’s own tests found the technology performed worse on certain groups of people, notably Africans. The plans severely endanger the human rights of children seeking asylum and should be […]

On World Refugee Day, we will recognise the strength and resilience of the more than 117 million people displaced globally. Forced from their homes by conflict, persecution, violence and human rights violations, they continue to demonstrate extraordinary courage in rebuilding their lives and contributing to the communities that welcome them. As the world’s leading humanitarian […]

The Canadian government’s elimination of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), announced on June 11, marks a significant step backwards in the fight for accountability for human rights abuses by Canadian companies. The CORE, established in 2019, investigates rights abuses by Canadian companies operating abroad in the oil and gas, mining, and garment sectors. For example, […]

(Berlin, June 18, 2026) – Uzbek authorities should release a local human rights activist accused of extortion and investigate his allegations of abuse in police custody, Human Rights Watch said today. Javokhir Muminov, the activist, told his lawyer on June 10, 2026, that following his arrest, police officers had beaten and suffocated him. “This criminal […]

China has pledged to strengthen protections for gig workers, and on June 12 the country voted for a landmark International Labour Organization (ILO) convention on “Decent Work in the Platform Economy.” These commitments could matter: an estimated 320 million people in China now rely on flexible, tasked-based gig work for employment, according to a new […]

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), along with its coalition partner Japan Innovation Party and the opposition Democratic Party for the People, and Sanseito, jointly submitted a bill on June 16 that would criminalize “publicly damaging, removing, or defacing” Japan’s national flag in a “way or situation that evokes significant discomfort or disgust in people.” The […]