Category: Human Rights

As the 2025 rainy season peaks in Panama, the Guna Indigenous community of Ukupa, which was displaced by floods late last year, is still waiting for much-needed governmental support. After severe flooding in December 2024 left their homes on the Caribbean coast uninhabitable, community members chose a measure of last resort: to relocate to a new, safer […]

Summary: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Indian authorities to provide immediate safety measures for investigative journalist and Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub, after she and her father received violent threats from an unidentified caller. The case has reignited concerns over the safety of journalists in India, where press freedom has come […]

Summary: Press freedom advocates have called on Moldovan authorities to launch a swift investigation after prominent investigative journalist Mariana Rață received violent online threats following an interview with a populist political leader. The case has sparked renewed concerns over the safety of journalists and the climate for free expression in Moldova. The Threats On October […]

It seems like science fiction, or even magic: the ability to communicate, control a computer or move a robotic limb via the power of thought. However, it’s not only possible, it’s already transforming the lives of patients with severe disabilities. In 2024, an audience at a UN conference in Geneva sat astounded as a young […]

(Washington, DC) – A resurgence of cholera in Haiti’s West department underscores the urgent need for coordinated, long-term action to restore basic water and sanitation systems, Human Rights Watch said today. The outbreak, part of a seasonal surge during the rainy period, is spreading in and around Port-au-Prince and its metropolitan area amid the near […]

While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning hand over a large area of the Amazon rainforest to illegal cattle ranches. The area in question, known as the Terra Nossa settlement, was created in 2006 […]

According to the UN health agency, healthcare aid from abroad is projected to see a decline of between 30 and 40 per cent this year, compared with 2023. This has already resulted in reductions of up to 70 per cent in key health services in some of the 108 low and middle-income countries that feature […]

The development comes 11 months after the country’s devastating civil war ended with the overthrow of the Assad regime by opposition forces loyal to new President Ahmad Al-Sharaa. Today, as Syrians return home in increasing numbers, the shattered country faces chronic shortages of inward investment, medicines, power and equipment. According to the WHO, only 58 per […]

Summary: A coalition of Illinois advocacy groups has filed a class action lawsuit against federal authorities, alleging “inhumane” conditions at a Chicago-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. The suit claims violations of detainees’ constitutional rights and federal regulations, intensifying scrutiny of U.S. immigration detention practices. Chicago, November 2, 2025 — Illinois-based advocates have launched […]

UN human rights experts have told the General Assembly that Nicaragua’s government has committed systematic abuses, some amounting to crimes against humanity, in a sweeping report that underscores the Ortega administration’s deepening authoritarianism. Findings Presented to the General Assembly On 31 October 2025, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (UNGHREN) presented its […]