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France’s newly appointed interior minister Bruno Retailleau signalled a rightward shift for French interior policy on Monday at his first public speech in office. Addressing police unions at the Cour de l’Hôtel de Beauvau, he vowed to end “illegal” migration and “restore order” in the country. Concerning immigration, the senior senator with The Republicans (Les [...]

Non-governmental organizations championed by Human Rights Watch released a letter on Monday addressed to the United Nations-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, urging that the Commission look into the killing of Lebanese civilians, including the journalist Issam Abdallah, by the Israeli military in October 2023. Abdallah was [...]

Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) endorsed an arrest warrant for Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday over the alleged “theft” of a Venezuelan cargo plane confiscated in Buenos Aires and handed over to the United States. On the same day, the Federal Chamber of the City of Buenos Aires ordered the arrest of Venezuelan [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called on the US to provide urgent humanitarian aid to more than 8,000 displaced Syrians in the Rukban camp, a remote area in southeast Syria that borders Jordan and Iraq. Rukban became one of the crossing points for Syrian refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war in 2011. However, due to security [...]

World leaders adopted a “Pact for the Future” at the 2024 UN Summit for the Future on Sunday, affirming their renewed commitments to a number of key international goals. The president of the General Assembly, Philémon Yang of Cameroon, described the summit as “a call to action” that recommits states to “the principles of international [...]

Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty on Monday criticized Poland’s current border enforcement practices, stating that it fails to meet the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). O’Flaherty especially highlighted that the practice of returning migrants to Belarus without an individual assessment violates several human rights protected by [...]

The French government deployed the special anti-riot police, the Republican Security Companies (CRS), to Martinique on Sunday in response to ongoing protests over the rising cost of living on the French-ruled Caribbean island. The deployment marks the first time CRS units have been sent to Martinique since they were banned from the territory in December [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) renewed its call for governments to address racial discrimination and inequalities in healthcare, in a statement issued on Monday.  In the statement, HRW cited General Recommendation No. 37 of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), concerning racial discrimination and the right to health. The NGO had [...]

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on Saturday condemned a proposed change in the country’s electoral laws submitted 15 days before the presidential elections. In a letter published by Echaabnews, the organization’s media outlet, UGTT’s Secretary General Noureddine Taboubi rejected the amendment as unacceptable and demanded it be stopped. The president of Tunisia’s Bar Association, [...]

In a report last week, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) stated that attacks by Russian armed forces on energy facilities in Ukraine may have violated international humanitarian law. Such attacks raise the possibility that Russia is creating conditions in which it is extremely difficult for Ukrainians to fully exercise their basic rights [...]