The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) stated on Wednesday that it will monitor the Italian-Albanian protocol to ensure its compliance with human rights and international law. The protocol approved by Albania’s Constitutional Court in January of this year will permit Italy to process migrants in Albania seeking asylum in the Italian peninsula. The UNHCR has been [...]

The Federal Administrative Court of Germany ruled on Wednesday to suspend the ban imposed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI) on COMPACT-Magazin GmbH, which is classified as a right-wing extremist company. This allows the company to continue its operations as a press and media outlet while the legal proceedings are ongoing. [...]

British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner reported on Wednesday that inequalities are baked into the western Canadian province’s justice, health and child welfare systems after taking a focused look at 10 key systems impacting human rights in the province. The report, titled “Rights in Focus: Lived Realities in B.C.” is the first in [...]

Amnesty International urged Bangladeshi authorities on Wednesday to immediately protect the country’s Hindu and other minority communities amid violence against minority communities. Amnesty International called for Bangladeshi authorities to conduct impartial and thorough investigations into the mob violence and crimes committed against minority communities, such as the Hindu and Ahmadi communities. The organization stated that [...]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made Islamophobic remarks in the majority of his speeches during the 2024 nationwide elections, according to a Wednesday report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).  Upon analysis of the 173 speeches he made over the course of the campaigning period, HRW found that 110 of them had derogatory comments aimed [...]

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, through a statement posted by her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, called for an investigation into the killings that occurred during weeks of protests in Bangladesh. In her first public statement since leaving the country, Hasina expressed deep sorrow for the lives [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared internal documents with CBS News on Tuesday concerning two incoming changes to border policies for the Canada-US border, which will aim to expedite the processing time on migrants’ applications for border officials.  These changes include decreasing the time migrants are allowed with their lawyers from a minimum [...]

Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, reported that the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program will serve as a “breeding ground for contemporary slavery” last week. The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows Canadian employers to take on foreign workers for temporary jobs. The UN report states that the program institutionalises [...]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced the arrest of Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Energy, Oleksandr Kheil, along with three other suspects on Monday as part of an investigation into widespread bribery and corruption.   In a press release, the SSU confirmed the arrest of the deputy minister following a comprehensive investigation into the corruption scheme, [...]

Steve Akam, a Cameroonian social media activist, is feared to have forcibly disappeared, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) news report issued Tuesday.   Human Rights Watch issued a statement demanding Akam’s whereabouts and advocating his release. Akam was reportedly last seen in a video circulated online on July 21, in which he is being [...]