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Peru's controversial 2025 pardon law shields military from human rights abuse trials, sparking global outcry amid calls for justice and … Read more: Peru's Boluarte Enacts Pardon for Human Rights Violations (1980–2000)Continue Reading

UN human rights chief criticises UK Palestine Action ban · Some don't … All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of … Read more: Demonstrators arrested at Palestine Action event in Norwich – BBCContinue Reading

The Iranian Resistance calls for urgent action by the UN High Commissioner and the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur, and international … Read more: Iran: No Information on 5 Political Prisoners Sentenced to Death for PMOI MembershipContinue Reading

In April 2025, the Human Rights Court in Kenya issued an unprecedented ruling that it has the jurisdiction to hear a case about harmful content on one … Read more: African courts may pave the way for holding social media giants to account – Al JazeeraContinue Reading

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); August 16, 2025: Branch 39 of Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of political prisoner, … Read more: Iran Supreme Court Upholds Political Prisoner Sharifeh Mohammadi's Death PenaltyContinue Reading

That is a breach of my human rights.” Moss's arrest forms part of a wider pattern of police over-reaction to online posts, often at the behest of … Read more: Police gag order against union activist overturned in free speech caseContinue Reading

As Executive Director of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO), Tesfaye Gemechu operates in one of the most polarized and perilous spaces in … Read more: Human Rights Council Chief Addresses Bias Claims, Obstruction And Shrinking Civic SpaceContinue Reading

“The Taliban must immediately put an end to the criminal practice of corporal punishment and respect international human rights law.” Since returning … Read more: Amnesty Urges Taliban to End Public Floggings and Uphold Human Rights – KabulNowContinue Reading

Human rights violations · Indiscriminate killing · By Turkey · By … All Rights Reserved – The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights – 2025. Read more: New death toll | 1677 people killed, including 452 executed by members of the Ministries of …Continue Reading

For 62 long years, the Turkish Cypriot people have been denied their most basic human rights as a result of this mentality. … humanity. The … Read more: President Ersin Tatar condemns the Greek Cypriot leadership's primitive mentalityContinue Reading

The high commissioner observed patterns of surveillance and harassment of human rights defenders, civil society actors, and families of the … Read more: UN report on Sri Lanka sparks human rights concerns – JURIST – NewsContinue Reading

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has also documented “widespread abuses, including mass arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and ill- … Read more: U.S. says “no credible reports of significant human rights abuses” in El SalvadorContinue Reading

BEIRUT – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Aug 15 condemned a five-year jail sentence it said had been handed down by a Qatari court against the leader … Read more: Human Rights Watch slams Qatar for handing Baha'i leader five-year jail termContinue Reading

Words like democracy, freedom, justice, fairness, human rights, along with lofty invocations of “protecting the rule of law,” have been co-opted by … Read more: Weaponizing Democracy and human rights in the age of doublespeakContinue Reading