The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday announced a $400 million settlement with Tiktok over children’s privacy concerns, which effectively ends a dispute that has been ongoing for over two years over allegations of obtaining personal information of children under thirteen without parental consent. TikTok will pay $300 million immediately; the remaining $100 million [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday has called on Ecuadorian authorities to drop all legal and financial penalties against activists behind the 2023 Yasuní Referendum, warning that the looming fines are part of a broader crackdown on civic space and environmental dissent in the country. Commenting on the importance of defending environmental activists from state retaliation, Ana [...]

The United Nations on Friday launched a new initiative to safeguard victims of terror attacks from online harm and re-traumatization, with its primary aim being to ensure a victim-centered approach to building a safer environment for internet users. Friday, i.e, August 21, marks the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of [...]

The UN warned on Friday that the global decrease in funding for humanitarian aid has forced aid programs and facilities in Somalia to shut down, and is resulting in increasingly severe consequences for Somali children. According to UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder, aid cuts closed doors to healthcare and deprived people, including children, [...]

ICE deported over 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administrative repeal of temporary protected status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitians, despite pervasive gang violence throughout the country. The charter flight landed in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, instead of capital Port-au-Prince, as gangs [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday struck down a ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries. Judge Jeannette Vargas wrote that the order, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was “patently unlawful” and exceeded his power under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that escalating settler violence and aggressive settler expansion in the occupied West Bank is driving the displacement of Palestinians, with the organization attributing the rise of settler extremism to Israeli authorities. HRW conducted investigations over April and May 2026 within 7 Palestinian West Bank communities. The organization expressed [...]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Thursday that 2.1 million Palestinian civilians are in need of shelter, essential household items, and protection from airstrikes and gunfire. OCHA reported that Palestinian civilians are being “killed, injured or otherwise affected by air strikes, shelling and gunfire.” On Wednesday, a 13-year-old girl [...]

Amnesty International on Friday issued a call for authorities and forces affiliated with Hamas in the occupied Gaza Strip to put an end to extrajudicial executions of suspected collaborators with Israel. In recent months, security officials in Hamas’ military wing—the Al-Qassam Brigades—publicly announced the summary execution of one man for collaborating with Israel and their [...]

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association on Thursday sued the governments of Canada and Manitoba for the province’s “extremely underfunded” criminal legal aid, arguing that the underfunding violates the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence, and is discriminatory against Indigenous people in effect. The lawsuit argued that the financial eligibility criteria for [...]