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Attacks against national human rights institutes hinder protection of essential rights: UN

Attacks against national human rights institutions (NHRIs) weaken their ability to fulfill their mandates to protect human rights and hinder access to justice and accountability fo...

EDITORIAL: Human rights compliance

US Foreign Aid Cuts Harm Human Rights Globally

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Amnesty International’s annual report warns global human rights under severe attack

Amnesty International warned in its annual report Monday that human rights around the world are under severe attack, creating “a global environment where primitive ferocity could f...

European Union: Surveillance Technology Sold to Rights Violators

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Global Failure to Protect Right to Health in Conflict

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France: Denial of Entry to Palestinian Activist Blocks Advocacy

(Paris, April 17, 2026) – France has refused to grant an entry visa to Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al-Haq, one of the leading and oldest Palestinian human rights organizations,...

Indonesia: Plan to Vet Human Rights Defenders

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Rights group concerned over Zambia decision to postpone RightsCon 2026

Human Rights Watch on Friday questioned the Zambian government’s latest decision to postpone RightsCon 2026, a global summit intended to foster collaboration between civil society...

‘Closing the Gaps’ on Needed Action to End Attacks on Health

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Why rights groups fear new ECHR declaration could weaken migrant protections

Political statement agreed by all 46 Council of Europe states could give them more leeway to carry out deportationsA political declaration aimed at clarifying key aspects of the Eu...

Zimbabwe: Human Rights Climate 'Deteriorating' in Zimbabwe, Monitoring Report Says

[263Chat] Zimbabwe recorded 145 human rights violations affecting more than 3,600 people in April, with political intimidation, arbitrary arrests and restrictions on freedoms of ex...

UN human rights chief urges Tunisia to halt persecution against civil society and judiciary

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday urged Tunisian authorities to halt their persecution of civil society organizations, journalists, human rights activists, and members o...

UN condemns Türkiye for criminalizing human rights lawyers

UN experts urged Türkiye to stop criminalizing members of human rights groups and lawyers in a press release on Tuesday, criticizing misuse of an anti-terrorism law. The special...

World News in Brief: Human rights in Mongolia, surge in sexual violence in Haiti, worsening hunger in Afghanistan

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday praised Mongolia’s recent human rights progress during a visit to the country, which recently adopted the region’s first law protecting...

Ten Years After the ADHOC 5, Cambodia’s Human Rights Defenders Are Still Paying the Price

The international human rights system depends on the work of local defenders, but offers them little protection once they become politically inconvenient.

Beijing likely forced cancelation of rights event in Zambia, HRW says

European Union: Surveillance Technology Sold to Rights Violators

(Brussels, May 12, 2026) - The European Union has failed to prevent member states from exporting surveillance technology to governments with well-documented histories of using tech...

Zambia: Summit on Human Rights, Technology Effectively Canceled

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Tunisia Suspends Rights Groups That Shaped Its Democracy

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Human rights concerns abound over China’s ‘state secrets’ regulation in the Uyghur region

In a region characterized by high levels of security governance and information control, the legal adjustments have significant consequences on the normalization and codification o...

UN Reports Detail Unjust Access to Justice for Women and Girls

In many cases, women’s rights are being rolled back, reports say

The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention

Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age. This year it was supposed to ta...

Malaysia: New Refugee Registration System Raises Concerns

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