Amnesty International on Monday protested the Hong Kong Court of Appeal decision to reject the appeals of the group of imprisoned activists known as the Hong Kong 47, calling it a 'missed ...

Human Rights Watch, along with 17 rights organizations, on Monday published an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), urging it to renew and strengthen respective mandates for the Special ...

EU Foreign Ministers must use their February 23 meeting with Nikolai Mladenov, Director-General of the Board of Peace (BOP) and High Representative for Gaza, to ensure that Palestinians’ rights are ...

In a statement Friday, at the conclusion of her visit to Ireland, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment, Astrid Peuntes Riaño says Ireland should ...

Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed “a wave of intense violence…shocking in its scale and brutality” during their final ...

Belarussian prisoner of conscience and opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich was released from imprisonmenton  Friday after he suffered a stroke earlier in January. Following his release, Amnesty ...

Amnesty International stated that the Indian AI Impact Summit 2026 did not secure concrete commitments to halt “destructive practices” by governments and technology companies, warning that the ...

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) and the UN Support Mission in Libya published a report on Tuesday detailing the systematic human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants, refugees, and ...

On February 12, the High Court of Kenya struck down Section 95(1)(b) of the Penal Code as unconstitutional. The Section made ...

North Korea began the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on February 20, 2026, signaling a tightening of control over youth and access to information. A key focus of the Party Congress ...

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is set to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a crucial pre-trial hearing next week, a milestone in the long-running international ...

Several cities across the United States have begun to break new ground in recent years by legally recognizing polyamorous ...