Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned Israeli forces in the West Bank for blocking and delaying ambulances carrying Palestinians to hospitals with ‘appalling regularity’, including forcing a pregnant woman in active labor to deliver on the road in an incident that cost the infant’s life. In commenting on the severity of the situation facing expectant [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Tom Andrews on Wednesday stated that Cambodia has multiple opportunities to improve the human rights situation and fulfill its human rights commitments despite persistent challenges such as the border conflict with Thailand and the cyber scam crisis. In a statement concluding his official [...]

Five South American countries on Tuesday announced a joint law enforcement operation targeting environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest. The campaign, dubbed Operation Green Shield 2026, resulted in over 800 arrests and the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in timber, minerals, and livestock. The campaign was coordinated by the International Initiative of Law [...]

The UN on Tuesday warned that strikes on civilian infrastructure, including on active classrooms and school buildings, are endangering civilians in Gaza and putting humanitarian efforts to educate children under immense pressure. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), military attacks and strikes are persisting across Gaza, particularly in classroom [...]

UN experts on Tuesday called for the government of Sri Lanka to take accountability for the deaths of humanitarian workers killed 20 years ago in the town of Muttur after successive international investigations have concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that members of Sri Lanka’s security forces were responsible for the killings, yet those [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Chinese authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who was detained for showing a photograph of the Dalai Lama in a monastery in Tibet, emphasizing that his detention violates fundamental rights to freedom of expression and religion. Zhang Yi, a prominent pro-democracy activist, was arrested on 28 July for [...]

INTERPOL announced on Monday that it has released a new report entitled “African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026,” which reveals that artificial intelligence (AI) now drives over 55 percent of cybercrime across Africa, with financial losses doubling to $484 million since 2024. In commenting on the significance of the report, the director for cybercrime at INTERPOL, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban’s resurgence, the group has fostered a hostile environment and spurred one of the world’s worst human rights crises. HRW called on governments around the world to take decisive action as opposed to passively providing condolences, stating that the international response [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday condemned a deadly airstrike by the Russia’s-Africa Corps in central Mali, saying the strike appeared to be an arbitrary attack that may have violated international humanitarian law. The Russian government-controlled Africa Corps launched the airstrike that killed eight civilians, including three children, on June 15. The strike hit the [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday called on authorities in Thailand to take urgent measures to address a wave of online death threats and harassment against members of parliament Angkhana Neelaphaijit and Romadon Panjor, as well as human rights activist Anchana Heemmina, after they voiced their disapproval of actions of the Thai military and expressed their [...]