Amnesty International on Tuesday said that Iran’s executions of five individuals in one week were the product of unfair trials and called on the international community to respond. Between September 30 and October 5, 2026, Iran executed five men—Majid Nikandish, Ali Hemmati Sistanian, Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, Alireza Raisi, and Alireza Sepahi—convicted in connection with anti-government [...]
Several state attorneys general on Wednesday filed individual lawsuits in their state courts against the artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, alleging that the policies of its generative chatbot ChatGPT are harmful to children and deceitful to parents. The bipartisan coalition of states that have filed suits include Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, West Virginia, [...]
UN experts on Wednesday welcomed a recent ruling by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) relating to Macro-Case 08, which recognises the responsibility of an Ecopetrol director and several state agents for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and serious human rights violations. The ruling concerns abuses committed during the armed conflict in Barrancabermeja in the [...]
15 October 2026: International Day of Rural Women Rural women around the world are integral to managing natural resources and food production. Dalí Nolasco Cruz, an Indigenous woman from Tlaola Puebla, Mexico, speaks powerfully about the intimate connections between food production and women’s oppression, stating: It is is incredible how a seed, a recipe, a [...]
Argentina on Tuesday submitted a request to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, seeking an order for provisional measures against the United Kingdom to halt British exploitation of hydrocarbon resources on the continental shelf to the north of the Falkland Islands. The move comes amid an ongoing dispute between the two states [...]
A UN expert on Monday called on states to emphasize and strengthen prevention as the most effective and sustainable means of combating the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children. Ai Kihara-Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, presented her first report to the General Assembly this week. [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the question of whether the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may be required by courts to disclose records on DOGE’s interactions with other federal agencies. The first question the Court will consider is whether the court of appeals’ order complies with Cheney v. United States [...]
Surviving an execution does not cancel a death sentence. A 1947 Supreme Court ruling allowed a second attempt, and today’s Eighth Amendment standards are demanding. Tennessee failed on September 30 to carry out what would have been its first execution of a woman in more than 200 years. Christa Pike survived what her lawyers describe [...]
US President Donald J. Trump continues to treat world politics as a quantifiable game to be won or lost. Among other errors, this treatment links world peace to belligerent nationalism and ignores the human foundations of national security. The following article by Purdue University Emeritus Professor Louis René Beres explains how such a view would [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) joined eighteen other human rights organizations on Monday in condemning the Turkish government for escalating internet censorship, stating that the measures were a violation of the right to freedom of expression. In September, İFÖD, Türkiye’s Freedom of Expression Association, reported that 1,270 accounts on X were geo-blocked in Türkiye. X complied with [...]
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