Thousands of protestors in Budapest, Hungary’s capital, blocked major roads and bridges along the Danube on Tuesday in disapproval of a law banning LGBTQ+ pride and restricting Hungarians’ right to assembly. The protest was organized by Ákos Hadházy, an MP for the Politics Can Be Different (LMP), a green-liberal party, calling for resistance against the [...]

The Osaka High Court held that Japan’s lack of recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional on Tuesday. The Osaka High Court is the fifth court to rule that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional after similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya. While Presiding Judge Kumiko Honda upheld the [...]

Ten New York corrections officers were charged Thursday in the 2024 death of inmate Robert Brooks at a state prison. Six of the officers, Anthony Farina, Nicholas Anzalone, David Kingsley, Christopher Walrath, Matthew Gallagher and one other officer, have been charged with second-degree murder; three others, Michael Mashaw, Michael Fisher and David Walters, face manslaughter [...]

Gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and the surrounding locality has produced a wave of human rights abuses against children, Amnesty International reported on Wednesday. Violence by gangs has worsened since President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021. Amnesty International states that the violence reached “unprecedented levels” in 2024, and children are exposed [...]

The African Union warned on Tuesday that the Sudanese civil war has created the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world.” Mohamed Ibn Chambas, chair of an African Union panel on Sudan, said in a statement on Facebook that the civil war has “hampered access to humanitarian relief, led to a shortage of food and aggravated [...]

Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, has sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the removal of public health information considered to be a part [...]

China is infringing on Uyghurs’ right to freedom of movement by enforcing strict travel restrictions for those who travel, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Monday. While Beijing has relaxed a ban on Uyghurs travelling outside of China, allowing some to obtain passports, HRW China researcher Yalkun Uluyol states that “the Chinese [...]

Mississippi state and the US federal government have neglected to protect Black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial [...]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he signed an executive order to ban transgender people serving in the US Armed Forces. The executive order, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” states: “Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false [...]

Russia’s upper house of parliament approved two laws on Wednesday that will prohibit the visibility of LGBTQ+ people in media and ban citizens of countries that allow gender transitioning from adopting Russian children. The first law amends Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation to prohibit “propaganda of non-traditional sexual [...]