China’s Taiwan Affairs Office announced on Monday sanctions against Taiwanese businessman Robert Tsao and lawmaker Puma Shen, banning them from entering mainland China, as well as Hong Kong and Macau. The two are accused of promoting Taiwanese independence and engaging in separatist activities. Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office, highlighted their involvement with [...]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced the foundation of the New Global Alliance to End Statelessness in a press release on Tuesday. The project marks the collaborative efforts of more than 100 states, civil society organizations, stateless-led entities, academics and others to “confine statelessness to the history books”. The Global Alliance seeks [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg held on Tuesday that there have been violations of the European Convention of Human Rights by Oslo Prison, the Oslo District Court and healthcare provider IHT Sanderdud, as authorities had failed to protect a prisoner with psychiatric disorders. On December 1, 2021, Age Nils Haugen brought [...]

A report from Freedom House released on Wednesday revealed that global internet freedom has declined for the 14th consecutive year. The report cites an increase in government censorship and election meddling as primary reasons behind this. The Freedom on the Net 2024 report, which assesses internet freedom in 72 countries, found that people were attacked [...]

Senior UN officials demanded that Israel and Hezbollah respect international law following a visit to Lebanon on Monday, including ensuring the protection of civilians, peacekeepers, civilian infrastructure and humanitarian access, as escalating violence in Lebanon harms and displaces increasing numbers of civilians. Following a three-day visit to Lebanon, in which they met with government officials [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered its judgement Tuesday in the case of Daugaard Sorensen v. Denmark, which centered on the dismissal of charges against the applicant’s alleged rapist due to administrative errors by the Danish Regional State Prosecutor’s Office. The case involves applicant Emma Daugaard Sorensen, who reported a rape to the [...]

Over 40 human rights groups warned Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk against implementing his plan to temporarily suspend the right to claim asylum in an open letter on Monday. Among the groups are Amnesty International, several asylum law organizations, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. The organizations stressed that the fundamental right to asylum is binding on [...]

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is currently hearing a case, Lidkea v. Correctional Service Canada, regarding the rights of deaf people in federal prison. The complainant, Timothy Lidkea, a deaf Métis inmate, filed a complaint against Correctional Service Canada, the respondent, claiming that he had experienced seclusion due to a lack of accommodations within the [...]

An investigation into the death of a former Salvadoran security official revealed significant flaws, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Tuesday. Alejandro Muyshondt had been serving as a national security advisor to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in August 2023 when he was arrested on charges of having disclosed state secrets to a political adversary. His arrest [...]

A spokesperson for the French government, Maude Bregeon, announced on Sunday that France’s newly appointed interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, has proposed a new immigration law to be adopted by the beginning of 2025 “to protect the French people.” According to Bregeon, the essential point of the new immigration law would be to prolong detention periods [...]