Barriers for Transgender People: We will not be up to date as long as many trans people face enormous as healthcare decisions are based on prejudices, personal beliefs, or ideological pressures, rather than must keep fighting just to be heard by government authorities, as if equality were a concession rather than The bottom line: It remains necessary to explain that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans, intersex, and not diminish the rights of another—and that love, human dignity, and freedom will always be stronger than

Trans-generational trauma: an existing reality in Rwanda The transmission of trauma from one generation ,” it was revealed that the legacies of the 1994 genocide and its aftermath have been transmitted to Towards creating a conducive environment for effectively coping with trans-generational trauma in Rwanda implement appropriate mechanisms for grassroots advocacy; identify and acknowledge issues related to trans-generational rights of imagining and creating the future they want. https://www.peaceinsight.org/blog/2017/12/coping-trans-generational-trauma-key-feature-peace-building-work-rwanda

By Holly Swiglo Genocide Watch Since the 1979 revolution, Iran’s leaders have imposed strict Shia Islamic Despite recent shifts in leadership and the new president’s reputation as a reformist, Iran’s political In early 2026, Iran experienced the highest levels of repression since 1979, and authorities granted Iranian missiles are displayed next to a banner with a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei , on a street in Tehran, Iran, September 27, 2026.

By Michał Jagielski Protesters marching in Zahedan city, Sistan and Baluchistan province. Photograph: UGC/AFP Sistan and Balochistan Province has been the victim of persistent attempts by the Iranian regime to oppress the Baloch and limit their capacity for mobilization. The events and policies described in this report are not isolated instances of ethnic persecution, but rather a strategy created to eradicate the Baloch. Tehran frames its policies as a response to the perceived terrorist threat, the subsequent instability, and severe underdevelopment, yet their true nature is vastly different. Militarization has normalized violence at security checkpoints, justified extreme surveillance, and allowed security forces to engage in extrajudicial killings and arrests, subsequently introducing insecurity into the province’s day-to-day life. Development projects, such as the Makran Development Plan, are often presented as opportunities, but they actually facilitate social engineering and resource exploitation. Religious discrimination, cultural suppression, and administrative restructuring aim to destroy the cultural identity and the communities of the Baloch. Furthermore, these policies deny the Baloch the opportunity to participate in the country's political, social, and economic life. The full report is available under:

The government told the IACHR it had trained security forces in human rights and prevention of institutional , as well as the first-ever conviction of dictatorship criminals for kidnapping and torturing eight trans likewise celebrated the conviction of a man for the aggravated homicide of Tehuel de la Torre , a young trans

The Human Rights Implications of Afghan Deportations by Pakistan and Iran By Juliana Girotto Afghans Photograph: Habibullah Achakzai/AP The mass deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan in Since 2023, more than five million Afghan refugees have been deported to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan In lieu of a formal asylum system, this form of documentation had provided Afghan refugees in Iran with The governments of Pakistan and Iran must restore legal protections for Afghan refugees and guarantee

The bridges were a key transit point for Bandar Abbas, Iran’s main port. Renewed US strikes had killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 400 in Iran by Friday morning, Washington and Tehran advanced competing plans for ships to transit the strait, with Iran attacking some drastically reduced over the last few days as violence escalated, though most ships that continued to transit Given the risks, some oil shippers are transiting the strait with their location devices turned off,

administration’s anti-terrorism strategy that it released in May specifically references “radically pro-transgender He pointed out trans people and women are often targeted. The event took place less than two weeks after Outright International released a report that found 90 in 2025 ruled the legal definition of a woman is limited to “biological women” and does not include trans

Across Iran, women continue to find small ways to assert individuality, resist, and stretch the boundaries

-Israeli surprise strikes on Iran and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. -Israeli attacks on Iran. prime minister Anwar Ibrahim also highlighted concerns about the welfare and safety of Malaysians in Iran An ING report predicts that the Philippines, which imports more than 90 percent of its oil from the Poling is a senior fellow and director for the Southeast Asia Program and the Asia Maritime Transparency

government are discussing the implementation of a United Nations resolution adopted in April that recognised transatlantic As you deliberate on the next steps of the UN Resolution on Trans-Atlantic Enslavement and Reparatory German colonial forces killed more than 75 000 Ovaherero and Nama people between 1904 and 1908. Ndjarakana says the package, presented as development assistance rather than reparations, does not adequately

In combination with growing judicial and extrajudicial repression and violence against immigrants, trans people (particularly trans women), and, indeed, all women in the US, Genocide Watch sees growing signs citizens shows that 9% lack proof of citizenship or easy access to it, people of color at a higher rate than and polling shows decreasing approval of the President on issues such as affordability, the war in Iran