Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called upon Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to veto recently approved legislation that would significantly weaken environmental licensing requirements across the country. The group stressed that the bill undermines Brazil’s human rights and environmental obligations by weakening oversight of high-risk activities like fossil fuel production and cattle [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Israeli authorities on Monday after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) headquarters during the fourth day of fire exchanged between Israel and Iran. CPJ regional director Sara Qudah expressed deep concern over Israel’s bombing of Iranian state television while it was live [...]

Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) on Friday urged the United Nations to prevent the Iranian government’s rising campaign of politically motivated killings. More than 300 global personalities supported the plea, including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, legal scholars, and human rights organizations. The coalition condemned Iran’s systematic [...]

Egypt’s First Circuit of the Criminal Court in Damanhour sentenced a 78-year-old school administrator to life imprisonment, equivalent to 25 years under Egyptian law, for the sexual abuse of six-year-old Yassin, a student enrolled at a private school in the Beheira Governorate. In today’s initial hearing, the court approved a request by the child’s legal [...]

Algeria’s Criminal Court of Dar El Beïda on Thursday sentenced renowned 80-year-old French-Algerian writer and outspoken critic Boualem Sansal to five years in prison and fined him 500,000 Algerian dinars. French lawyer François Zimeray, who represented Sansal in the early stages of the case, said the verdict betrayed the meaning of the word justice and [...]

A Swedish government-commissioned investigation recommended a legislative reform to the country’s abortion law on Monday. One propsed reform is to allow home abortions, without requiring patients to visit a clinic for their first prescription. The recommendation package marks the first legal reform in nearly 50 years after the abortion law came into force. The report [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the US government for systematically violating the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border, asserting that current policies violate both domestic and international human rights obligations. In its briefing titled “Lives in Limbo: Devastating Impacts of Trump’s Migration and Asylum Policies,” Amnesty International detailed how executive actions and increased [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday for what it called their failure to uphold accountability and due process in the 2009 extrajudicial killing of investigative journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, urging decisive action to end the country’s “alarming record of impunity” in journalist killings. CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih Yi denounced [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced Monday the establishment of an Ethics Council tasked with providing advisory guidance to the President of the court on matters pertaining to judicial ethics. The decision to formally constitute the Ethics Council was adopted by the Plenary Court during its session on 16 December 2024. This development [...]

Italian authorities arrested Osama Najim, the head of Libya’s judicial police, in the city of Turin on Monday, following a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his alleged involvement in war crimes, according to Italian news reports. The arrest is linked to widespread torture and inhumane treatment allegations at Mitiga prison. The [...]