Roma Rights Network Reports Persecution in Europe
By European Roma Rights Centre August 7, 2026 Brussels, 11 August 2026: The Roma Rights Network today published the first issue of the relaunched Roma Rights Review, the most comprehensive assessment of the human rights situation of Europe's largest ethnic minority. Built on the direct testimony, casework, analysis, and field documentation of 34 member organisations across 18 countries, the Roma Rights Review stands as the authoritative source on the situation of Roma Rights
ERRC
Sep 28
SALC Warns BILL Could Shut Migrants Out Of Rights Complaints
By Mfanufukile Khathwane September 25, 2026 Source: Independent News Eswatini Mbabane– Migrant workers, asylum seekers and immigration detainees could be left without access to the country’s human rights complaints mechanism under the proposed Commission on Human Rights and Public Administration Bill, according to the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC). Melusi Simelane of SALC, working with Lilungelo Lakho partners, raised the concern in a detailed section-by-section an
Four civilians killed in Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan
By Tinshui Yeung September 25, 2026 Credit: BBC Afghanistan's Taliban government said a wave of Pakistani air strikes had killed four civilians in the latest escalation between the two sides. The strikes hit provinces including Kandahar, the Taliban's base of power, sources told the BBC. A resident told AFP news agency they heard a jet, followed by a large explosion and then a fire in the city. Pakistan said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan, without specifying
BBC News
Sep 25
UN human rights chief alarmed over attacks on LGBTQ rights
By Michael K. Lavers 22 September 2026 Volker Türk on Monday spoke at UN LGBTI Core Group event. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk (Screen capture via UN Human Rights Council/YouTube) UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is co
Washington Blade
Sep 24
Tour Guide, Commune Councillor and Two Others Convicted of Plotting
By LICADHO 23 September 2026 Clockwise from top left: second deputy commune chief in Battambang’s Anlong Vil commune Rath Sothy, supporter the Cambodia National Rescue Party Suon Bunlor, second deputy commune chief for the Cambodia National Rescue Party Am Vong, tour guide Pin Poch. Photos supplied and from their Facebook pages. The Phnom Penh Capital Court convicted four Cambodians for plotting this morning and sentenced them each to seven years in prison allegedly over phon
LICADHO
Sep 24
Kuwait's Struggle To Resolve Its Long-Standing Bidoon Crisis
By Nirmalshankar M May 16, 2026 If Kuwait is paying international agencies millions of dollars to benefit refugees worldwide, why can't they handle their own refugees? One of the persistent issues in the Middle East is the status of the Bidoon (stateless) in Kuwait. This is one of the most enduring and complex cases of structural statelessness in the modern Middle East. Although Kuwait has been lauded for its economic contributions to international organisations, including be
The Week
Sep 24
Panama Homicides Rise 6% as Femicides Jump 78%
By Balboa News Desk 20 September 2026 photo: Martin Podsiad Panama recorded 406 homicide victims during the first eight months of 2026, an increase of 6% from the same period last year, according to preliminary figures from the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The comparable total for January through August 2025 was 384. April was the deadliest month this year, with 63 victims, followed by May with 58 and August with 54. Violence remained concentrated in the country’s largest urba
Balboa News Desk
Sep 23
Calling for Urgent Action to End Red-Tagging
Commission on Human Rights May 5, 2026 Statement of the Commission on Human Rights calling for urgent action to end red-tagging and protect human rights defenders The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) reiterates its call to eliminate the practice of red-tagging and urges all branches of government to take urgent action to protect fundamental freedoms in the country. The CHR’s findings and recommendations are drawn from the National Inquiry on the Current Situation of Human Rig
Liberia: The Paradox of Moral Authority
Its deal to take deportees is the latest in a long history of unequal agreements with the US.
Al Jazeera
Sep 23
Thousands In Somalia Could Be In Famine By Year-End
By Reuters September 23, 202610:14 AM NAIROBI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Thousands of displaced people in Somalia's southwest could experience famine between October and December if El Nino causes worse-than-expected flooding and humanitarian aid remains insufficient, a global hunger monitor said on Wednesday. Baidoa, one of Somalia's biggest cities, is home to hundreds of thousands displaced by conflict and hunger. A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
Reuters
Sep 23
US deal funneled deportees into El Salvador’s prison system
By RFI September 22, 2026 Families of 11 Salvadoran men deported from the United States are demanding to know what happened to their relatives after they were sent back to El Salvador under a secret agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele. Part of The Deportation Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, this investigation traces how Trump's deportation drive fed into El Salvador's prison system, in a case rights groups say amou
Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco
By Al Jazeera September 13, 2026 The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. Spain’s proposed citizenship route for Sahrawis is bringing its colonial legacy in Western Sahara back into the political spotlight and testing its delicate ties with Morocco [Hannah McNeish/Al Jazeera] Spain’s Congress has approved a bill that would open a special route to Spanish citizenship for Sahrawis born in Western Sahara while the disputed
Al Jazeera
Sep 22
