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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday that Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the 2034 World Cup overlooked international standards and previous labor rights abuses in the country. The rights group also accused FIFA of ignoring its human rights policy by accepting Saudi Arabia’s bid that does not prevent future abuses against workers. HRW explained [...]

Human rights organizations sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the deteriorating health of Chinese legal scholar and human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month to protest his ongoing ill-treatment in detention. Xu, a key figure in China’s New Citizens’ Movement, has been held since February 2020, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 16 other organizations urged the European Union on Wednesday to confront Azerbaijan’s government on human rights abuses during the upcoming COP29 climate conference. The organizations call for EU leaders to help end the increasing politically motivated arrests, detainments, and restrictions on free speech in Azerbaijan. The joint statement was released [...]

In the early morning hours Wednesday, following a historically contentious presidential election, Donald Trump announced his victory before a crowd of supporters in Florida, and vowed to “seal up” the US borders to ensure immigrants are only able to enter the country legally. Trump took the stage at approximately 2:30 am, having attained 267 of [...]

Eighty-one human rights and civil society organizations, including Amnesty International, signed a joint statement on Monday opposing a proposed espionage law in Türkiye that would significantly enhance government power. The statement argues that the bill is overly broad and could enable the government to imprison journalists and human rights organizations for engaging in legitimate civil [...]

US District Judge Stephen Locker ruled Sunday that Iowa can continue to challenge the validity of hundreds of ballots after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate sent a letter to county commissioners on October 22 stating that a review of voter registration data showed 2,176 registrants might be ineligible to vote due to non-citizenship. Secretary [...]

Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content In this article the author, Mykyta Vorobiov, a Senior Editor for Long Form Content and student at Bard College in Berlin, explores the significant changes made to Russia’s Constitution following the controversial 2020 referendum that allowed President Vladimir Putin to extend his rule. The amendments [...]

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) on Saturday adopted several important agreements regarding the expanded role of indigenous peoples and local communities in biodiversity preservation efforts. A new agreement on Article 8J of the Convention aims to enhance indigenous knowledge and participation in crafting the [...]

The Tokyo High Court declared Japan’s current policy against same-sex marriage as discriminatory and unconstitutional, in a ruling on Wednesday. The case involved a Tokyo couple registered as same-sex partners who sought compensation from the government, arguing that laws failing to recognize same-sex marriage violated the Japanese constitution. Presiding Judge Taniguchi Sonoe emphasized that establishing [...]

Deputy executive director of UNICEF Ted Chaiban on Friday called for more international attention to the “forgotten crisis” in Sudan amid the country’s civil war. In a joint statement with UNHCR assistant high commissioner for operations Raouf Mazou, Chaiban noted the massive displacement and damage caused by the war being fought between the Sudanese Armed [...]