Special Report: Cyber Scam Operations in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian cyber scam operations have evolved into a transnational criminal ecosystem fusing human trafficking with industrial-scale fraud: at least Thousands of victims from dozens of countries have been trafficked, mostly through fake online job offers, into guarded compounds where they endure 16-19-hour workdays, torture, sexual exploitation, debt bondage and passport confiscation under conditions the UN describes as modern slavery of "industrial proportions".
Genocide Watch
Oct 27
Brazil: Lula Should Focus on Human Rights in New Term
Implement Consistent Rights Agenda October 25, 2026 President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voting in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil (São Paulo, October 25, 2026) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been reelected as Brazil’s president, should use his new term to tackle chronic human rights problems, Human Rights Watch said today. President Lula defeated the Liberal Party candidate, Flávi
Human Rights Watch
Oct 27
US Accused Of Trapping Women And Children In Somalia’s Floods
Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy? Mark Townsend in Kismayo Oct 26, 2026 A colonel from US special operations in Somalia with a soldier from a branch of the Somali army trained by US special forces, in Mogadishu in 2023. Photograph: Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images The water was rising rapidl
The Guardian
Oct 27
West Africa Monthly Report: September 2026
September marked another turbulant period for West African countries.
Genocide Watch
Oct 27
Remembering El Fasher
By Mohamed Zakaria October 26, 2026 The city I knew and the atrocities that changed it. We must preserve the record of what happened without letting it define the city I love. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. To many people, the Sudanese city of El Fasher – where I was born, raised, and spent my professional working life – is now a place synonymous with hunger and death. For 500 devastating days beginning in May 2024 it was besieged by the Rapid Su
The New Humanitarian
Oct 26
Doctors fight anti-trans measure requiring genital exams for student athletes
By Claire Wang October 21, 2026 A Washington referendum has drawn broad opposition from adults who work with queer and trans teens. Credit: Jose Luis Raota/Getty Images For Kelsey Gellner, a Seattle-based pediatric nurse, a statewide proposal to bar trans girls from sports participation feels like a violation of her duty as a medical professional. The ballot initiative includes a requirement she calls “invasive and extreme”: all students who wish to compete on girls’ teams wo
The Guardian
Oct 26
Togo Country Report - April 2026
Togo has faced political crisis since its controversial 2024 constitutional reform, which the opposition widely views as President Faure Gnassingbé’s attempt to extend his 20-year rule. In May 2025, Gnassingbé assumed the post of President of the Council of Ministers without a popular vote.
Genocide Watch
Oct 26
Hong Kong Rejects UK Report on National Security Laws
By Hong Kong Free Press October 23, 2026 A cityview of Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Hong Kong authorities have slammed the UK for making “untruthful remarks, slanders and smears” about the city’s affairs in its latest six-monthly report that described the “expanding scope and application” of national security laws in the financial hub. The Hong Kong government said on Friday that it “strongly condemns and firmly rejects” the UK’s report on the city, a former British colon
Hong Kong Free Press
Oct 26
Ebola Outbreak In DRC: What You Need To Know
By: International Rescue Committee Last updated: October 22, 2026 Source: International Rescue Committee DRC’s Ebola outbreak has passed 9,500 cases and 4,600 deaths. The Bundibugyo strain behind this outbreak has no approved vaccine. Aid cuts, conflict and mistrust are enabling the virus to spread undetected. The IRC is protecting health workers and rebuilding community trust. As Ebola cases spread across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the International Rescue C
Hong Kong Woman Sent to Psychiatric Institution Over Seditious Posters
By Lo Hoi-ying October 16, 2026 West Kowloon Court ordered the defendant to serve three months in the Siu Lam Psychiatric Centre. Photo: Jelly Tse An elderly woman who pasted materials containing pro-independence slogans and Hong Kong’s colonial-era flag outside her flat has been sentenced to three months in a maximum-security psychiatric institution for displaying seditious publications. West Kowloon Court ordered housewife Yang Chau-ki, 62, to undergo mandatory psychiatric
South China Morning Post
Oct 25
DR Congo,South Kivu: 12,000 households displaced by civil war
Actualité.cd October 21, 2026 Thousands of residents of Kaziba, in the territory of Walungu, in South Kivu fleeing clashes between the RFN and the FARDC supported by the wazalendo are traveling to neighboring chiefdoms and villages, local sources report. According to figures provided by local sources, more than 12,000 households have fled the fighting which has lasted for more than a week. "The displaced are very numerous, more than 12,000 households", a local development org
Actualité.cd
Oct 25
Trump ramps up third-country US deportations
By Alia Chughtai and Umar Farooq October 15, 2026 Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to. Credit: Al Jazeera Media Network United States immigration authorities have dramatically stepped up detentions and deportations since January 2025, when Donald Trump became president. Trump campaigned on a pledge to implement the “largest deportation operation in American history”. Officers with the Department
Al Jazeera
Oct 23
