Category: Human Rights

On March 12, 2025, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe unanimously adopted a new treaty — the European Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer — a long-anticipated legal instrument designed to strengthen safeguards for lawyers across the continent. With its official opening for signature on May 13 during a […]

South Sudan’s authorities have not brought to justice those responsible for attacks on civilians three years ago by government forces and allied militias in Leer and other opposition-controlled areas in southern Unity state. The lack of meaningful justice for the most serious crimes in Leer and other counties in southern Unity drives new cycles of […]

That’s one of the alarming updates shared by Volker Türk during a General Assembly briefing on Wednesday, the first informal meeting dedicated to the issue of the thousands who go missing after being targeted each year. The High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Member States to do more to address the “unprecedented” rise in disappearances, […]

At the 10th International Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, held from May 8 to 11, 2025, a pivotal roundtable titled “Nonviolent Journalism: A Necessary Utopia” was convened by Pressenza, an international news agency dedicated to peace and nonviolence. This discussion brought together a diverse panel of journalists and activists to explore the […]

In a statement on Monday, the UN agency said it is supporting Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) – not deportation – for those who decide to leave the US. At the request of the US Government, IOM is helping people who register to go back to their countries of origin voluntarily. “AVR is a well-established, rights-based […]

A U.S. federal judge has ordered the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national and doctoral student, who had been detained for weeks following the revocation of her F-1 student visa. Öztürk, who was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March 2025, has been held in a detention facility in […]

By Solomon Alaka | Based on reporting by Jurist and Human Rights Watch Vietnamese authorities have leveled new charges against jailed human rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong, intensifying what rights observers describe as a sweeping and systematic crackdown on peaceful dissent. Currently serving a 10-year sentence under Article 117 of Vietnam’s penal code—commonly used to […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of Veronika Orlova, a journalist with the independent Russian media outlet SOTAvision, who was sentenced to 13 days of administrative detention after filming emergency services responding to an anti-government protest in Moscow. Orlova was arrested on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, near Bolshoy Moskvoretsky […]

Panama is witnessing a rapidly expanding national strike as workers, students, and Indigenous groups mobilize against controversial reforms, foreign military agreements, and state repression under the administration of President José Raúl Mulino. The strike, now in its second week, initially led by key labor unions such as SUNTRACS (construction workers), ASOPROF (professors), and SITRAIBANA (banana […]

In Mali on Thursday, two political opposition leaders went missing, sparking fears they may have been forcibly disappeared. Abba Alhassane, 68, is the secretary general of the opposition party Convergence for the Development of Mali (Convergence pour le développement du Mali, or CODEM). His colleagues said that on May 8, 2025, masked gunmen claiming to […]