Category: Human Rights

They’re calling for the decision to be reversed, warning it could undermine the wider international human rights system. The sanctions were announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday under a Presidential Executive Order. Mr. Rubio alleged that Ms. Albanese had “directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, […]

The move, currently being debated in the Greek Parliament, would halt asylum registration for three months and allow for the return of new arrivals without assessing their claims. It follows a recent rise in landings on the southern islands of Gavdos and Crete. While acknowledging the strain of managing new arrivals, UNHCR said such measures […]

📍 Conakry, July 9, 2025 — A coalition of 25 Guinean and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, has called on Guinea’s military authorities to urgently disclose the whereabouts of civil society activists Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, who were forcibly disappeared exactly one year ago. The activists, both senior members of the […]

📍 El Fasher, North Darfur — July 9, 2025The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Sudanese authorities to immediately release freelance journalists Nasr Yaqoub and Mohamed Ahmed Nazar, who were detained on July 7 by the Sudan Liberation Movement–Transitional Council (SLM–TC), an armed group affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). 🛑 Incident […]

As Europe emerges from a devastating heat wave, the European Parliament should reject efforts, including by industry groups in the United States, to weaken the European Union’s flagship corporate accountability law and its measures to tackle climate change. The 2024 EU law, called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, requires large companies operating in the […]

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 […]