Research Team

According to a recent report by Amnesty International, human rights violations have occurred in the ICE immigration detention facility in El Paso. At ICE’s El Paso Service Processing Center, Amnesty International researchers discovered evidence of arbitrary detention, systematic abuse of prisoners, and a disrespect for both U.S. and international human rights norms.  Researchers also discovered […]

Jo Malone has come under fire for allegedly “whitewashing” Dubai’s violations of human rights after she seemed to defend the UAE’s record. Jo Malone, who moved to the Middle East after becoming “disillusioned” with Britain, has defended Dubai’s human rights record. Following her apparent statement that there was no difference between living in a Middle […]

According to Human Rights Watch, the Syrian transitional government‘s strict registration and operational criteria for relief organizations are impeding their capacity to expand their activities. Even while the government has indicated that it is open to working with foreign NGOs, administrative and bureaucratic obstacles still stand in the way of efforts to solve Syria’s worsening […]

According to a new documentary on the 2022 murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, the Israeli soldier who fired the fatal shot has been identified. The movie also claims that although the Biden administration first believed that an Israeli soldier had fired at Abu Akleh on purpose, even though the media could […]

According to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International, the United Arab Emirates has violated a U.N. arms embargo by providing Sudan with sophisticated Chinese-made weapons. According to the rights group, among the weaponry found in Khartoum were Chinese 155mm AH-4 howitzers and GB50A guided bombs. According to Amnesty International, the guided bombs, which were […]

Human rights organisations have urged the Saudi regime to unconditionally release a 51-year-old mother of five who has spent the last six months in solitary confinement. Ten NGOs, including Alqst, Dawn and Human Rights Watch, issued a statement on Thursday sounding the alarm over the detention of Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, highlighting that her health […]

A group that represents Mexican federal judges said in a statement on Tuesday that 14 federal judges, both current and former, petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for “reparation for human rights violations” that they claim were brought on by the nation’s recent judicial system overhaul. Every level of Mexico’s courts saw a historic […]

According to UNAMA’s most recent human rights report, which was released on Thursday and covers the first quarter of 2025, Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have carried out regulations intended to eradicate women from the nation’s public life and limit their freedom of movement. Afghan Taliban violations of women’s rights are extreme and systematic, and have increased […]

According to an AFP count, Saudi Arabia has carried out at least 100 executions this year, including the death of two individuals found guilty of terrorism-related offenses, the interior ministry announced on Saturday. According to the ministry’s social media release, the two Saudi nationals were put to death for their “terrorism”-related offenses, which included visiting […]

An international human rights tribunal found U.S. immigration law enforcement responsible for the killing of an illegal migrant living in San Diego and the following cover-up almost 15 years after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents brutally tased and assaulted him. The United States should reopen a criminal investigation into the death of Anastasio Hernandez […]

Experts and nongovernmental groups (NGOs) are raising alarms about the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela’s pervasive, grave, and organized abuses of human rights. “In terms of the numbers for politically motivated repression in Venezuela, 2024 was unprecedented,” a recent study by the pro bono legal aid group Foro Penal in Venezuela stated. At least a […]

The Taliban-run Supreme Court revealed that the Afghan Taliban carried out four public executions this month in the western Afghan districts of Badghis and Nimroz despite growing international outrage. “I condemn the four public executions that took place today in the Afghan provinces of Badghis (2), Farah, and Nimroz and reiterate that these executions, along […]

Over 10,000 human rights violation cases have been registered in Crimea during the 11 years of occupation. Statistics of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during hostilities in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and other parts of Ukraine were also entered into the Register of War Crimes. Since the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the […]

A 19-year-old girl was sentenced to almost three years in a correctional colony by a St. Petersburg court on April 18 after she was charged with frequently “discrediting” the Russian army, including by affixing a quote to a statue of a Ukrainian poet. In a statement released Friday, the Joint Press Service of Courts in […]

A Frontex official stated that the European Union’s border agency is frustrated with Greece’s ongoing pushback of migrants and is contemplating urging Brussels to initiate disciplinary action against Athens.  Jonas Grimheden, the Fundamental Rights Officer, stated that Greece’s actions left Frontex with two choices: either to pause its mission or to request that the European […]

The social security system of the UK has been described as deliberately heartless by activists who maintain that it falls short of global human rights systems. Amnesty International, a charity promoting human rights, released a report that claimed that the social security system in the UK “lacks conformity to international human rights norms. It stated: […]

A coalition of human rights attorneys is filing suit against Costa Rica, alleging that the Central American nation violated the rights of numerous migrant children by detaining them at a rural base for about two months after their expulsion from the US in February. The children, including some as infants as 2, belong to a […]

The government of the United States led by President Donald Trump has sought to reinterpret the definition of “human rights” within the nation’s justice system. Under reports by media, the government of Trump significantly is reducing the State Department’s annual reports detailing global human rights to eliminate long-standing criticisms over abuses like oppressive prison conditions, […]

In a risky escalation of a focus on the nuance of opposing agendas in Yemen, a clandestine Emirati scheme was said to have been presented to the White House under Donald Trump’s leadership, suggesting an invasion of Yemen via land utilizing militias beholden to Abu Dhabi supported by significant U.S. aerial support. The UAE’s action […]

Uganda is preparing for general elections in January 2026, marking the seventh since President Yoweri Museveni assumed power in 1986. In advance of these elections, there has been a noticeable increase in repression. What’s different this time is that this repression has spread beyond Uganda’s borders. On November 16, 2024, opposition politician Kizza Besigye and […]

Tunisia has vastly increased politically motivated arrests and prosecutions to harass and silence opponents, a Human Rights Watch report published Wednesday finds. In a sweeping erosion of gains made through Tunisia’s 2011 revolution, the authorities in recent years have targeted judges, lawyers, journalists and activists in a clampdown on President Kais Saied’s critics. “Since the […]

Mozambique’s security forces conducted a human rights vioaltions, vicious, three-month crackdown on demonstrators following the nation’s election a year ago, a top international rights organization stated, quoting local activists who claimed that over 300 people were killed and over 3,000 were injured in the violence. In its latest report, Amnesty International urged Mozambican authorities to […]

A United Nations expert report validated the UAE’s role in secretly providing weapons to armed militias in Sudan through neighboring Chad, putting pressure on Abu Dhabi before it attends a crucial conference in London to halt the war in Sudan. The internal report—rated highly confidential—identified proof of “multiple” UAE flights, with cargo planes making a […]

Saudi Arabia’s border troops are accused of indiscriminate use of force against migrants at their borders, with accounts of deaths and injuries and several reports of women being raped. Ethiopian migrants trying to cross from neighbouring Yemen between 2019 and 2024 have reported to the Guardian of being machine-gunned and of viewing corpses rotting in […]

The European sources have uncovered the clandestine facts of suspicious relationships and conflicts of interest between former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the UAE. The revelations include the utilization of shell companies to conduct illegal economic and political activities and open doors to political and technological influence in Europe. It has been revealed that Kurz […]

In a dramatic turn of events that mirrors the level of Saudi Arabia’s overt identification with the Israeli narrative, comments by the Muslim World League Secretary-General Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa triggered mass controversy in British political and media circles following his call on Britons to “talk less about Gaza,” asserting that debate over the Israeli […]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) witnessed a heated confrontation on Thursday between Sudan and the United Arab Emirates. It heard a lawsuit filed by Khartoum, blaming Abu Dhabi of disregarding the UN Convention on the Prevention of Genocide due to its alleged backing for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudan on Thursday informed the […]