The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) on Saturday condemned a proposed change in the country’s electoral laws submitted 15 days before the presidential elections. In a letter published by Echaabnews, the organization’s media outlet, UGTT’s Secretary General Noureddine Taboubi rejected the amendment as unacceptable and demanded it be stopped. The president of Tunisia’s Bar Association, [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held on Tuesday that Switzerland’s expulsion of a national of Bosnia and Herzegovina violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The individual in question had been expelled and barred from Switzerland for five years after he was convicted of a drug-related offense. Switzerland was specifically accused of violating [...]

Police in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu detained over a 100 striking workers planning on marching in Chennai on Monday. The workers, who are employees of Samsung Electronics, were protesting low wages and working conditions. The planned march would allegedly disturb public peace, according to senior police officer K. Shanmugam, who was quoted by [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Tuesday that Libya’s authorities have not provided proper support to those affected by last year’s floods in the city of Derna. According to the organization, this has severely affected compensation and rebuilding efforts, as infrastructure remains unbuilt and thousands of people are unable to return home. Floods struck the [...]

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan pardoned 57 Bangladesh nationals on Tuesday. As reported by WAM, the official news agency of UAE, the pardoned individuals had been convicted due to their involvement in trials in the country last month. UAE’s Attorney-General, Dr Hamad Al Shamsi, has also stopped the deportation process [...]

Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je was released from detention after an order from the Taipei District Court, due to lack of evidence. As reported by Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA), the court declared that Ko should be released from custody without bail. Ko, a member of the Taiwan People’s Party who garnered significant support as [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the city of Medford, Oregon, on Tuesday, alleging that the city’s law enforcement authorities have been surveilling and illegally gathering information on the complainants for years. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two local organizations and an individual activist. In the complaint, [...]

The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, called Sunday for the Taliban regime to allow education for girls and women. Posting on X to commemorate the 105th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence, Karzai urged the people of the nation to collaborate in order to learn and progress. Since their takeover in 2021, the Taliban have been [...]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the storming of the UN Human Rights office in Yemen in a press release on Tuesday. The office in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, was stormed on August 3rd, after an earlier storming in June, resulting in the detainment of 11 UN personnel, [...]

Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, was acquitted Sunday in a corruption case by a special court in Dhaka, according to an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) who spoke to The Daily Star. Yunus, a Nobel laureate, was acquitted by Judge Muhammed Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-4 of Dhaka along with [...]