Category: Human Rights

VIENNA, 3 June 2025 – Stronger efforts towards inclusive policymaking are urgently needed to foster tolerance and counter discrimination across the OSCE region, according to leaders and experts at a two-day high-level meeting convened to mark 50 years since OSCE participating States reaffirmed their commitment to universal human rights, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion, […]

Published ahead of the Human Rights Council’s upcoming session, the report highlighted the worsening situation since the military coup in 2021, which derailed Myanmar’s democratic transition and ignited widespread armed resistance. In the years since, military forces have targeted civilian populations with airstrikes, artillery bombardments and other forms of violence, while anti-military armed groups have […]

Washington, D.C. – In a major immigration decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration the authority to revoke temporary legal status for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The ruling overturns a previous injunction issued by a federal judge, paving the way for deportation orders affecting these individuals. […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has revealed significant flaws and inconsistencies in the conviction of Senegalese journalist René Capain Bassène, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2022 for his alleged involvement in the 2018 massacre of 14 loggers in the Boffa Bayotte Forest, Casamance. Unsubstantiated Accusations and Forced Testimonies Central to the prosecution’s […]

Boston, May 31, 2025 — Federal authorities have arrested Eric Spofford, the former CEO of Granite Recovery Centers, on charges related to a conspiracy to stalk and intimidate journalists who investigated his conduct while leading New Hampshire’s largest addiction treatment network. According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice, Spofford, 40, allegedly […]

Libya’s fragmented justice sector is marred by serious due process violations and laws that violate international norms. The judiciary is unwilling and unable to meaningfully investigate serious crimes. Violations of the magnitude and persistence documented in Libya reflect the chronic shortcomings of Libya’s judicial institutions. Tackling structural institutional dysfunction, including within the judiciary, is a […]

“Russian armed forces have committed the crimes against humanity of murder and the war crimes of attacking civilians, through a months-long pattern of drone attacks targeting civilians on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Province,” the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said. Attacks have been carried out since July 2024 […]

Earlier this month, Sharifa Madrakhimova’s passport was tampered with and destroyed, preventing her from traveling abroad to accept an award honoring her work defending human rights in Uzbekistan. Shortly afterward, Abdurakhmon Tashanov, another prominent rights defender, was ordered to pay several thousand dollars in a civil defamation case for an innocuous Facebook post. While the […]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on separatist insurgents operating in southern Thailand to immediately halt attacks on civilians and adhere to international humanitarian law, amid a surge in violence in the region. The rights group’s statement on Thursday follows renewed reports of deadly assaults by armed separatist groups across the provinces of Pattani, Yala, […]

“Africa is a continent of boundless energy and possibility. But for too long, the colossal injustices inflicted by enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism have been left unacknowledged and unaddressed,” he said. The United Nations has repeatedly said that slavery and the transatlantic slave trade constituted crimes against humanity, and the Secretary-General has repeatedly […]