Category: Human Rights

An estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples live across 90 countries, representing 5,000 different cultures. Without proper safeguards, AI risks harming Indigenous rights through inequitable distribution of the groundbreaking technology, environmental damage and the reinforcement of damaging colonial legacies. The growing amount of electricity generation needed for AI data centres and other infrastructure is also intensifying […]

(New York) – The Vietnamese government should immediately release two wrongfully imprisoned activists who have developed serious health problems in prison, Human Rights Watch said today. Can Thi Theu, 63, a land rights activist, was recently hospitalized for abdominal pain and fever. Le Dinh Luong, 59, a pro-democracy campaigner, suffers from spinal degeneration and chronic stomach pain. […]

“A complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza Strip must be immediately halted,” insisted Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after the Israeli security cabinet approved a plan which portends a full-scale Israeli military takeover in the battered enclave. The development runs contrary to international law, Mr. Türk continued, referring to a ruling […]

📍 Kyiv / Moscow — August 2025 Human rights monitors and Ukrainian officials have condemned Russia for allegedly establishing a digital “catalogue” to facilitate the coerced adoption of Ukrainian children who were forcibly deported during the ongoing conflict. The catalogue reportedly categorizes minors by age, eye color, and hair color, raising alarm over the commodification […]

📍 Minsk, Belarus — August 2025 A Belarusian court has sentenced journalist Danil Palianski to 10 years in prison on charges of treason, according to local media and press freedom advocates. Palianski has been in detention since September 2024 and is among 37 journalists currently imprisoned in Belarus. 🛑 Crackdown on Independent Media The sentencing […]

📍 Geneva / Kinshasa — August 2025 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has strongly condemned the recent escalation of violence by the M23 rebel group and other armed factions in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), citing grave violations of ceasefire agreements and international humanitarian law. 🛑 Surge in Civilian Casualties […]

📍 Baghdad, Iraq — August 2025 The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iraqi authorities to immediately release Ali Al-Dhabhawi, director and presenter of Al-Baghdadia TV, and to reinstate the station’s satellite broadcast license. The appeal follows a series of enforcement actions that press freedom groups have condemned as part of a broader […]

(New York) – Macao authorities should unconditionally release the former lawmaker and veteran pro-democracy activist Au Kam San (區錦新), who was arrested on national security charges, Human Rights Watch said today. This is the first time the draconian Law on Safeguarding National Security has been invoked in China’s Macao Special Administrative Region. On July 30, 2025, […]

US President Donald Trump is set to host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on August 8 to sign a memorandum of understanding that could lead to a peace deal between the two countries. President Trump is expected to hold bilateral meetings with both leaders as well. While […]

August 6, 2025 A coalition of 15 human rights organizations—including Amnesty International, Article 19, and Politics for Women Myanmar—issued a joint statement on Tuesday condemning the Myanmar military regime’s treatment of political prisoners. The groups cited widespread torture, systematic denial of healthcare, and a rising death toll in detention facilities as evidence of an escalating […]