Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, reported that the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program will serve as a “breeding ground for contemporary slavery” last week. The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to take on foreign workers for temporary jobs. The UN report states that the program institutionalises [...]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced the arrest of Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Energy, Oleksandr Kheil, along with three other suspects on Monday as part of an investigation into widespread bribery and corruption.   In a press release, the SSU confirmed the arrest of the deputy minister following a comprehensive investigation into the corruption scheme, [...]

Steve Akam, a Cameroonian social media activist, is feared to have forcibly disappeared, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) news report issued Tuesday.   Human Rights Watch issued a statement demanding Akam’s whereabouts and advocating his release. Akam was reportedly last seen in a video circulated online on July 21, in which he is being [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday removed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office, determining that he “grossly breached ethics” by appointing Pichit Chuenban, a lawyer who was convicted in 2008 over an attempt to bribe Supreme Court officials, to his cabinet, according to local media sources.  A group of forty senators, a majority of whom were [...]

German Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser announced on Tuesday her intention to extend border controls beyond their initial deadline on December 15, 2024. The Minister revealed this intention to reporters during a security tour across various German federal states.  ​​During the second leg of her 2024 security tour, Minister Faeser visited the Federal [...]

Authorities in Jordan are using a Cybercrimes law to suppress online criticism of government policies and practices in contravention of international human rights law, Amnesty International stated on Tuesday.  Despite widespread concerns, the Cybercrimes Law 2015 was revised on August 13, 2023, by Cybercrime Law No. 173 to bring sweeping changes to the scope of [...]

Amnesty International urged Angola authorities to immediately release Angolan TikToker Ana da Silva Miguel, also known as Neth Nahara, on Tuesday. Amnesty International said Neth Nahara was arbitrarily detained and condemned Neth Nahara’s conviction of committing an outrage against the state, its symbols and bodies under article 333 of Angola’s penal code as absurd. Amnesty [...]

The Bangladesh Editors’ Council called for the government to withdraw cases against journalists under anti-free-press laws on Monday. Editors’ Council’s president Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star, hosted the discussion in the Daily Star offices. The statement was made after police and government reactions to student protests in Bangladesh triggered [...]

The Supreme Court of India (SC) on Monday put a stay on the criminal defamation proceeding against an Indian newspaper editorial director, Jaideep Bose, who took the case before the apex court after the Karnataka High Court refused to quash the proceedings against him. Jaideep Bose is the editorial director of Bennett Coleman and Company [...]

Free speech organization Article 19 urged the government of Algeria to repeal recent amendments made to the Algerian Penal Code to align with international freedom of expression standards in a statement published on Monday. Article 19, a human rights organization committed to defending the freedom of expression and information, criticized the amendments, which introduced new [...]