Amnesty International said a growing number of Southeast Asian states are cutting back on the death penalty, creating new momentum towards abolition in a region long known for its strong support for capital punishment. The statement came ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, alongside a new briefing examining progress [...]

Yesterday, Americans learned that their government plans to broadcast a killing. The Pentagon said Thursday that the December execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be livestreamed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had vowed to make the execution public. The proposed spectacle would bring a firing squad into [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the Trump administration’s “third-country removal” policy, which has sent people primarily to African countries where they have no connection: Between January 20, 2025, and August 5, 2026, according to ICE data, the “third-country” deportation program transferred nearly 28,000 people to more than 50 countries that are neither their [...]

Medical personnel are protected persons. That principle — rooted in the Geneva Conventions and universally accepted — is now being tested in Iran with the case of Mozhdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a 27-year-old Red Crescent worker whose death sentence was recently upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court. Her prosecution is not only a human‑rights abuse; it is [...]

The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Thursday that Tawila, in Sudan’s Darfur region, which hosts more than 700,000 displaced people, is currently experiencing severe shortages of food, water, and healthcare, calling for an urgent increase in resources and humanitarian funding. WHO representative in Sudan, Dr Abdinasir Abubakr, said that Darfur recorded high levels [...]

Autonomous systems now write code, diagnose illness, drive vehicles, and trade securities with steadily diminishing human oversight. In the event of damage caused by robots, private law’s classical subjects of natural persons and legal entities are not a perfect match. This blog stems from the idea that while machines do not meet all the criteria [...]

The room is dark, and only a little light enters through the windows. A man stands in the middle of it. He is a dictator, and the fear that has taken hold of him is visible now in a way that the authority of his position has perhaps never allowed anyone to see. Outside, voices [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Denmark and Greenland to ensure accountability and the rights of Inuit women at the centre of their response to the decades-long use of contraception without consent in Greenland. The statement comes as Denmark and Greenland continue to address the forced contraception case, in which Greenlandic Inuit women and [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday extended a temporary restraining order (TRO) that permits White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW (MSNBC), and Politico, allowing the court more time to decide whether it will block President Donald Trump’s ban on the outlets during the pendency of their lawsuit. In September, President Trump removed [...]