A UN expert on Sunday called for the reversal of the ban on women staff entering UN premises in Afghanistan, condemning the Taliban measures as a violation of UN principles of equality and human rights. According to Susan Ferguson, the UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan, the ban on Afghan women staff and contractors entering [...]

German parliament on Friday voted to pass a bill that would impose military conscription, following rising tensions between Russia and European Union (EU) states. With 323 votes in support  and 272 against, the bill introduces a two-stage conscription process. If voluntary service does not meet the set quotas, a need-based conscription can be activated by [...]

Thousands joined protests in the Philippines on Sunday, including the Roman Catholic clergy, calling for the resignation of the country’s president and the prosecution of high-level officials over a corruption scandal tied to flood-control infrastructure. Opposition groups and the Catholic Church marched along Manila’s EDSA Avenue, calling for investigations into President Bongbong Marcos and his [...]

Amnesty International on Friday called for Tunisian authorities to revoke the “unjust convictions and sentences” in the conspiracy case against several activists, politicians, and lawyers, calling their detention a blow to human rights. Sara Hashash, the deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, called for an immediate “quash” of [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Saturday announced that a surge of immigration enforcement has begun in Charlotte, North Carolina, targeting “criminal illegal aliens” protected by “sanctuary politicians.” DHS noted in its statement that North Carolina authorities did not honor around 1,400 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “detainers,” which are requests to hold [...]

Amnesty International on Friday stated that South Africa must “seize opportunity to show principled global leadership,” urging action against Israel’s actions in Gaza ahead of the G20 Leaders Summit in Johannesburg. The rights group noted that South Africa must use all its power in the upcoming summit to “compel Israeli authorities” to stop the genocide [...]

A US federal judge has ruled that the Department of Education violated the First Amendment by changing the out-of-office email messages of several employees without their consent. The emails set by the agency included partisan language that blamed the Democratic Party for the government shutdown. In his decision, issued Friday, US District Judge Christopher Cooper [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for Iranian authorities to release an arrested newspaper editor, saying that his detention is part of a deliberate effort to restrict dissenting speech in the country. The CPJ claimed that the arrest of Parviz Sedaghat and several other dissenting voices in Iran is an attempt to [...]

Guayana arrested on Friday the incoming opposition leader on request for extradition by the United States, following an indictment by a Florida court on money-laundering, tax evasion, and gold smuggling. In a statement, the Guyana Attorney-General’s Chambers noted that Azruddin Mohamed allegedly evaded export taxes and royalties on “10,000 kilograms of gold” and attempted the [...]

The South African government said on Friday that the US decision to accept Afrikaners as refugees is concerning and disregards South Africa’s own “constitutional processes.” The statement released by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation noted that the determination by the US president that there is a “white genocide” happening in South Africa is [...]