The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg in Russia has sentenced 19-year-old activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for “discrediting the armed forces” by publicly posting 19th-century Ukrainian poetry in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to local media sources. Kozyreva began her anti-war activism in 2022, the year [...]

UN experts on Thursday urged Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to immediately impose a moratorium on inhumane punishments, including capital and corporal punishments, in response to public executions carried out on April 11. The Taliban’s de facto supreme court last week imposed four public executions across the provinces of Badghis, Nimroz and Farah. The experts stated: “Friday’s [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that most countries are failing to meet their human rights obligations by not allocating sufficient public funding to ensure the right to health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED), which offers data on healthcare spending across 194 countries and territories since 2022. [...]

UN human rights experts on Friday called on Pakistan to stop displacing Afghans from the cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and further urged authorities not to carry out deportations to Afghanistan. The UN experts urged the Pakistani government to continue its role as a neighboring host country for Afghan refugees. The experts stated: “We urge [...]

The South Korean government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission admitted on Wednesday that the government had violated fundamental human rights in the intercountry adoption process due to a lack of a proper legislative framework, oversight, and adherence to administrative procedures. The government’s findings are based on an intensive investigation that involved gathering information and conducting interviews [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday criticized the unlawful expulsion of 238 Venezuelan nationals from the United States to El Salvador, saying the action endangers their lives. The expulsion contravenes a court order, which barred removal of the Venezuelans. In response to the deportation in defiance of the court’s decision, Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, [...]

The European Commission announced preliminary findings against Apple and Google, charging them with two violations of the Digital Markets Act on Wednesday. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the EU’s law to regulate the power of large digital platforms to ensure a fair and contestable market. The European Commission designated gatekeepers under the DMA, which [...]

Human Rights Watch on Thursday criticized the proposed European Union “Returns Regulation” for undocumented migrants as “cruel and unrealistic” for allowing longer detention and harsher treatment. The European Commission seeks to establish standardized return procedures so that returns of migrants can be more efficient while still respecting fundamental human rights. For instance, the proposed rule [...]