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Kenya’s High Court of Garissa ruled on Wednesday that the Kenyan government’s refusal to issue identification documents to ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals was unconstitutional and infringed on their rights. Kenyan NGO Haki-na-Sheria issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the judgment on its official X account. The NGO stated that the High Court ordered the Kenyan [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner published a report on Friday detailing North Korea’s ongoing and worsening human rights crisis. The report, which consists of numerous interviews with North Korean escapees and former officials and detailed accounts of human rights crises developed from consultations with human rights organizations, documents the abuses of human rights [...]

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) declared on Wednesday that Sudan is currently experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis ever recorded. The report highlights that approximately 30.4 million people — over half of Sudan’s population — are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, a staggering figure that accounts for 10 percent of all people globally requiring aid, [...]

34 rights organizations on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the travel bans and asset freezes imposed on three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a prominent human rights organization. The coalition of organizations denounced the restrictions imposed upon former executive director Gasser Abdel Razek, administrative director Mohamed Bashir, [...]

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly been targeting civilians in Gezira state, including unlawfully detaining, injuring, killing and raping local residents, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Sunday. HRW has called for the UN  to deploy a mission to Sudan, in order to protect civilians. HRW criticized the UN [...]

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 [...]

President Vladimir Putin arrived on an official visit to Mongolia, the Kremlin announced Monday. This comes after an announcement made by the Kremlin last Thursday and marks Putin’s first journey to a member nation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since the court issued a warrant for his arrest in March 2023 over alleged war [...]

Malaysia’s Federal Court on Wednesday dismissed the Malaysian Bar’s bid to appeal a government emergency proclamation over fake news amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The bar raised 27 constitutional questions concerning the validity of the law. Still, the court ruled that the bar did not fulfill the threshold requirement under Section 96 of the Courts of [...]

World Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson in Sudan, Leni Kinzli, called Friday for unrestricted access and security assurances to deliver aid to families struggling to survive amid devastating violence in Darfur and other conflict zones across Sudan, saying “time is running out to prevent starvation.” Kinzli underscored the critical need for WFP to use the Adré [...]

The plight of women’s rights in various countries reflects a complex interplay of legal, cultural and societal norms that significantly disenfranchise women and girls, threatening their human rights and dignity. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, and Nigeria present challenging environments where women’s rights [...]