Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Colombian authorities on Friday to do everything in their power to solve the brutal killing of a presenter and director of a local radio station in the northwest of the country and bring to justice the offenders. They strongly condemned the crime, emphasizing that the journalist’s work as a [...]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called for decisive global action to eliminate chemical weapons. Saturday marks the Day of Remembrance of All Victims of Chemical Warfare when he also called on the international community to reaffirm its commitment to ending this threat once and for all. In his message, Antonio Guterres emphasized the important achievement [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Saturday a bill that provides debt relief to recruits who sign up to fight in Ukraine, and their spouses. Federal law No. 391 was previously passed by the State Duma, lower house of the Russian parliament, on Tuesday November 19, and comes into force in December.  The [...]

Belarusian opposition activist Vasil Verameichuk has been detained in Vietnam and extradited to Belarus, where he faces accusations of terrorism and a possible death penalty, the opposition in exile said Thursday. On Wednesday, state television in Belarus showed Verameichuk being taken to Minsk on a nearly empty plane and led down the steps by two [...]

Ahead of the COP16 biodiversity summit, set for October 21 to November 1 in Cali, Colombia, Amnesty International called Thursday for states to strengthen human rights protection in the Global Biodiversity Framework. COP 16 is the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, the governing body to the Convention on Biological Diversity, an international [...]

A Russian missile hit a Palau-flagged vessel on Monday in Ukraine’s southern port of Odessa. One Ukrainian national was killed while five foreign nationals among the ship’s crew members were injured. According to the head of Odessa’s Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, the aggressor initially targeted the port infrastructure. The 60-year-old Ukrainian killed by a [...]

Amnesty International urged the self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) on Thursday to reveal the whereabouts of former defense minister Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi and 18 of his relatives and supporters who were abducted in Benghazi a year ago. Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi, who became minister of defense in 2016, served in the post until 2018, and strongly condemned [...]

Twenty-six countries on Thursday expressed their support for a legal initiative to hold the Taliban accountable at the International Court of Justice for systematic human rights violations against women and girls in Afghanistan. In a joint statement, the countries condemned Taliban policies that have severely curtailed the rights of Afghan women and girls since the [...]

In a report last week, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) stated that attacks by Russian armed forces on energy facilities in Ukraine may have violated international humanitarian law. Such attacks raise the possibility that Russia is creating conditions in which it is extremely difficult for Ukrainians to fully exercise their basic rights [...]

Teachers from across Belarus have been arrested or summoned for interrogation by the country’s State Security Committee (KGB-RB) for joining an educational project, the local Viasna Human Rights Centre reported on Wednesday. The project, named “Adukavanka,” is aimed at improving the skills of education workers in Belarus. The project offers educators express courses, lesson builders, [...]