The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned on Thursday that Türkiye’s newly approved cybersecurity bill could undermine press freedom by criminalizing legitimate reporting and granting the government extensive surveillance powers over cyberspace. The CPJ criticized the new law for imposing a prison sentence of two to five years for any individual who “knowingly creates or [...]

The spokesmperson for the UN Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, warned on Monday that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to worsen as the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalates. Dujarric emphasized that humanitarian funding cuts have significantly contributed to the already dire humanitarian situation and stressed that the cessation [...]

The Greek parliament set up a committee on Tuesday to investigate allegations against a former deputy minister of obstructing a previous investigation into the country’s 2023 disastrous train crash. Human Rights Watch welcomed the decision as an opportunity to address the broader decline of the rule of law. The former deputy minister Christos Triantopoulos is [...]

Amnesty International urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday to condemn the forced return of Eritrean refugees to their home country. The statement came amid the 58th session of the human rights council that focused on the human rights situation in Eritrea. Amnesty International emphasized the dire human rights conditions faced by Eritrean [...]

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Thursday that the alarming human rights situation in Haiti requires immediate international assistance to save the population from a serious human rights crisis. The OHCHR emphasized that the only way to address the situation is to consolidate the UN’s efforts to restore [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the College of Commissioners on Wednesday to address the Indian government’s human rights violations during their upcoming meeting with the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 27. HRW joined several other rights organizations in a letter to [...]

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Tuesday that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sentenced former Guatemalan lawmaker Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar to 18 years in prison for international drug trafficking. US District Judge Michael Truncale rendered the verdict on February 11 after Ubico Aguilar pleaded [...]

The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed serious concerns on Tuesday about the “sharply deteriorating” human rights situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the takeover of much of the region by M23 fighters. The spokesperson stressed that the capture of Bukavu, the second-largest city [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held unanimously on Thursday that Ukraine violated the right to respect for private life of three Ukrainian nationals and their lawyer by ordering unlawful surveillance measures. The court also determined that the authorities failed to comply with their obligation to provide the necessary resources for the case examination [...]

A coalition of human rights organizations issued a letter on Wednesday urging international companies to suspend their trade transactions with Corporación Dinant, a company in Honduras that manufactures consumer products and sells snacks, cooking oils as well as processed foods throughout Central America. The organizations cited severe human rights violations against local farmers and unethical [...]