Human Rights

At a Glance Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, two Muslim student activists. They have spent years in pretrial detention...

On Sunday, Myanmar opened the first of three voting phases in a general election that critics say will neither restore democracy nor end the civil...

Israel’s cabinet approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that brings the total number of new settlements to 69, a record,...

In Quito, a court handed 34‑year prison sentences to 11 soldiers for the abduction, torture and murder of four children in 2023, a case that has...

On Sunday, 14 December 2025, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania, for his first interview after being freed from...

In a stark UN report released Thursday, the U.N. Human Rights Office said that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed more than 1,000 civilians in a...

A sudden release of 123 Belarusian prisoners on Dec. 13, 2024, has left many without passports, forcing them into exile in Ukraine or...

In a move that has drawn the attention of Washington, London, and Beijing, Jimmy Lai’s daughter, Claire Lai, has publicly stated that her 78‑year‑old...