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Amnesty International warned on Wednesday that military authorities in West Africa have been increasingly using enforced disappearances as a means of repression against civil and political activists who criticize the government. The organization noted that the military and security forces in Mali, Niger, Guinea and Burkina Faso resorted to unlawful detentions and enforced disappearances to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on Wednesday a report documenting serious human rights violations committed by Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups during the aftermath of the 2024 presidential elections. HRW presents evidence on the killings, cases of torture, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions perpetrated by armed groups supporting the government called colectivos, and security [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday highlighting a general decline in human rights around the globe since Donald Trump took office, due to a rise of authoritarianism and corporate greed emboldened by the Trump administration’s policies. The organization noted both positive and negative trends in the sphere of international justice, applauding the enforcement of [...]

As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime accountable for widespread human rights violations. One effective approach would be to establish a Special Domestic Criminal Court to prosecute individuals responsible for crimes committed [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday to address ongoing human rights issues in discussions with Cambodian officials as she begins her two-day official trip to Cambodia. The visit, marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, offers an opportunity to highlight ongoing concerns regarding transnational repression [...]

Gambian national Michael Sang Correa was convicted by a Colorado jury for participating in the torture of victims in 2006, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday. Correa was a part of a paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers,” run by Yahya Jammeh, dictator and former Gambian president. The victims told the jury that [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday reported that nearly 60,000 Afghan refugees have been forcibly deported from Pakistan so far this month. The latest wave of forced deportations comes amid a nationwide effort to expel foreigners, whether they are residing in Pakistan legally or illegally, in the name of “national security.” Amnesty International [...]

The US and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to forced disappearance and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday. In a dramatic escalation of immigration practices, authorities removed 238 Venezuelans from US detention on March 15, transferring them directly to El Salvador’s Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a facility [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday detailing prevalent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), indicating probable war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, titled “They Raped All of Us,” shared the story of 30 women and girls who were raped from April 15, [...]

Part two of the series can be found here. When I read CNN’s piece about  a pro-Israel group sharing with the Trump administration a Palestine activist “deportation” list, I immediately thought of Edwin Black’s foreword in IBM and the Holocaust, in which he questioned where the Nazis got their lists in the first place. That [...]