In a letter to Postmaster General David Steiner, the seven Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) demanded Friday that the US Postal Service (USPS) halt implementation of new mail-ballot procedures required by President Donald Trump’s executive order. The senators also want answers about the legal authority for those new procedures [...]

A group of UN experts called on Honduras Friday to immediately halt evictions of peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities under Decree No. 107-2026, also known as the Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-Industrial Sector, Energy Projects, Tourism, Livestock, and Small Agricultural Producers. The experts said: “We cannot stand by and watch the [...]

UN experts on Friday have raised alarm over the alleged enforced disappearance, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Imran Ali, a student from the Balochistan province, calling it part of a state-sponsored pattern of targeting ethnic Baloch people and urged Pakistan to conduct an urgent investigation. In commenting on the importance of transparency and accountability in [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has delayed the prosecution for past grave abuses, despite sharp criticism from victims’ families, many of whom have yet to receive proper closure for their losses. Sri Lanka finds itself at a point of conversation within human rights circles as excavations take [...]

By the seventh day of deliberations in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the courtroom dispute had shifted away from her mental state and toward the conduct of a single juror. The jury foreperson had sent Judge William Sullivan notes indicating that one juror had acknowledged doubt but, in the foreperson’s account, was refusing to apply the [...]

The UN urged Iranian officials Thursday to withdraw draft legislation that would impose up to 30 years imprisonment for communicating with “foreign entities,” warning that the broadly worded measure could have long-term implications on fundamental civil liberties in the country. Commenting on the potential human rights violations that may arise if the bill is passed, [...]

Kenya marked the 16th anniversary of its 2010 Constitution on August 27 with a familiar ritual, now laced with unease. Sixteen years after Kenyans voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new constitutional order, the country split, once again, into two symbolic rooms. At the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, President William Ruto led the [...]

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan on Thursday released a new report detailing how external support networks fuel the conflict and escalate civilian harm in the country. The Mission concluded that foreign-sourced weapons, drone systems, components and personnel have significantly expanded the military capabilities of both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the [...]

UNICEF on Thursday reported that nearly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries experienced technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse within a single year, with an estimated 20 million children subjected to at least one form of abuse. The findings expose a substantial enforcement gap fewer than one percent of the [...]