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Advocacy for Press Freedom and the Need to Protect Journalists Amid Rising Threats

Journalists around the world are facing increasingly dire threats, from physical violence to legal harassment, as they continue their crucial role in keeping governments and societies accountable. Advocacy groups have raised urgent concerns, demanding immediate action to protect media workers and safeguard press freedom. With violence against journalists at an all-time high and escalating digital […]

FIFA accused of human rights lapse in 2034 Saudi World Cup decision CategoriesAdvocacy

FIFA accused of human rights lapse in 2034 Saudi World Cup decision

Leading attorneys have filed a formal complaint against FIFA, claiming the organization has violated its own human rights regulations for the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. The 30-page complaint, which demands prompt action in five areas, was submitted through FIFA’s formal grievance procedure. The Swiss lawyer Stefan Wehrenberg, the British barrister Rodney Dixon, and […]

El Paso ICE center accused of human rights violations CategoriesAdvocacy

El Paso ICE center accused of human rights violations

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 […]

Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia suffer abuse, racism, and lack of legal protection CategoriesAdvocacy

Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia suffer abuse, racism, and lack of legal protection

According to a recent report by Amnesty International, Kenyan women employed as domestic helpers in Saudi Arabia face harsh, violent, and discriminatory working circumstances that frequently equate to forced labour and human trafficking.  The report emphasizes how employers, sometimes motivated by bigotry, subjected women to terrible exploitation in private homes and how Saudi Arabia’s labour […]

UK entrepreneur Jo Malone accused of downplaying human rights concerns in Dubai CategoriesAdvocacy

UK entrepreneur Jo Malone accused of downplaying human rights concerns in Dubai

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 […]

Syria’s new government imposes restrictions on humanitarian aid efforts CategoriesAdvocacy

Syria’s new government imposes restrictions on humanitarian aid efforts

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 […]

UAE-supplied Chinese weapons found in Sudan, violating arms embargo – investigation reveals CategoriesAdvocacy

UAE-supplied Chinese weapons found in Sudan, violating arms embargo – investigation reveals

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 […]

Judges allege human rights violations in wake of Mexico’s court reforms CategoriesAdvocacy

Judges allege human rights violations in wake of Mexico’s court reforms

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 […]

Sudan’s RSF accused of war crimes after bloody assault on Zamzam refugee camp CategoriesAdvocacy

Sudan’s RSF accused of war crimes after bloody assault on Zamzam refugee camp

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, on April 11. They set fire to stores and homes, killed medical personnel, and opened fire on escaping people. Monitors report that hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly relocated and that at least 500 individuals—men, women, children, and the […]

Taliban systematically stripping Afghan women of rights CategoriesAdvocacy

Taliban systematically stripping Afghan women of rights

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 […]

Saudi Arabia under fire after 100 executions in 2025 CategoriesAdvocacy

Saudi Arabia under fire after 100 executions in 2025

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 […]

U.S. found responsible for migrant’s death, cover-up by international rights tribunal CategoriesAdvocacy

U.S. found responsible for migrant’s death, cover-up by international rights tribunal

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 […]

Ongoing human rights abuses under Venezuela’s Maduro regime CategoriesAdvocacy

Ongoing human rights abuses under Venezuela’s Maduro regime

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 […]

Taliban's public executions of 4 individuals mark grave violation of human rights CategoriesAdvocacy

Taliban’s public executions of 4 individuals mark grave violation of human rights

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 […]

Greece faces potential EU legal action over migrant rights violations CategoriesAdvocacy

Greece faces potential EU legal action over migrant rights violations

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 […]

UK social security system deliberately cruel & violates human rights CategoriesAdvocacy

UK social security system deliberately cruel & violates human rights

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: […]

Trump Administration rewrites US human rights policy for global reporting CategoriesAdvocacy

Trump Administration rewrites US human rights policy for global reporting

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, […]

Uganda’s military courts repression ahead of 2026 elections CategoriesAdvocacy

Uganda’s military courts repression ahead of 2026 elections

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 […]

Reports of widespread repression in Tunisia amid human rights concerns CategoriesAdvocacy

Reports of widespread repression in Tunisia amid human rights concerns

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 carried out a brutal crackdown on post-election protests, Amnesty says CategoriesAdvocacy

Mozambique accused of human rights abuses in election protests

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 […]

UN expert report expose UAE’s arms supply to RSF through Chad CategoriesAdvocacy

UN expert report expose UAE’s arms supply to RSF through Chad

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 […]

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants allegedly killed by Saudi border forces CategoriesAdvocacy

Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants allegedly killed by Saudi border forces

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 […]

Human rights experts decry UAE’s secret detention of Abdulrahman Al-Qaradawi

A month ago, a team of independent human rights specialists voiced serious concern regarding the insufficient information on the whereabouts and well-being and status of poet and activist Abdulrahman Al-Qaradawi after his extradition from Lebanon to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 8 January 2025. Our worst fears that Mr. Al-Qaradawi would be subjected to […]

Sebastian Kurz’s UAE ties spark fears of political and tech infiltration CategoriesAdvocacy

Sebastian Kurz’s UAE ties spark fears of political and tech infiltration

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 […]

Saudi religious chief’s call to ‘Talk Less About Gaza’ sparks outrage in UK CategoriesAdvocacy

Saudi religious chief’s call to ‘Talk Less About Gaza’ sparks outrage in UK

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 […]

UAE’s covert use of African human rights groups to target rivals CategoriesAdvocacy

UAE’s covert use of African human rights groups to target rivals

Human rights groups in Geneva have uncovered the United Arab Emirates’ role in orchestrating coordinated incitement campaigns against its rivals. They are reportedly utilizing African organizations, offering financial incentives to discredit the UAE’s opponents and to obscure its troubling human rights record. A source from the United Nations disclosed that the UAE is orchestrating campaigns […]

How the UAE is Using PR to undermine Sudan’s ICJ case CategoriesAdvocacy

How the UAE is Using PR to undermine Sudan’s ICJ case

According to reports, the oil-rich UAE has covertly initiated a media campaign designed to improve its damaged reputation, tainted by allegations of backing militias in Sudan and involvement in acts of genocide. Apparently, this sophisticated media campaign encompasses the complete leverage of media assets, with one objective: remodeling the UAE’s image in light of growing […]

UAE allegedly fuels efforts to discredit Syria’s new government CategoriesAdvocacy

UAE allegedly fuels efforts to discredit Syria’s new government

Reports indicate secret Emirati efforts aimed at undermining Ahmad Al-Sharaa’s leadership via media manipulation and sectarian provocation. Media reports and exclusive sources indicate suspicious actions by the United Arab Emirates aimed at stirring up chaos inside Syrian territory, particularly against the administration of transitional president Ahmad Al-Sharaa. The project, termed malicious, is being carried out […]

Ten years on and still no justice for victims of the SaudiUAE-led war in Yemen CategoriesAdvocacy

Ten years on and still no justice for victims of the Saudi/UAE-led war in Yemen

After ten years of military operations in Yemen, the Saudi/UAE-led coalition is being asked to take responsibility for the vast civilian harm induced during its catastrophic military strikes. On the anniversary of the intervention on March 26, 2015, rights group Mwatana for Human Rights said that thousands of victims still lack justice, redress, and reparations. […]

Ahmed al-Doush’s case highlights Saudi Arabia’s oppressive measures CategoriesAdvocacy

Ahmed al-Doush’s case highlights Saudi Arabia’s oppressive measures

Saudi Arabia is strictly enforcing two specific regulations: the Anti-Cybercrimes Law (2008) and the Penal Law for Crimes of Terrorism and its Financing (2014). The vagueness of their content has been repeatedly utilized by the Saudi authorities to apprehend and imprison political dissidents or peaceful demonstrators arbitrarily.  The majority of the cases are brought before […]

Sudan’s war rages on as UAE moves weapons network to Central African Republic CategoriesAdvocacy

Sudan’s war rages on as UAE moves weapons network to Central African Republic

The French magazine Jeune Afrique, in an article titled “UAE, China, Russia, and Iran: Who is Supplying Sudan with Weapons in Its Ongoing War?”, noted that General al-Burhan’s takeover of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, represents a crucial turning point in his two-year conflict against General Hemedti. Nonetheless, this will not automatically resolve the civil war, […]

How the UAE became a key enabler of Israel’s regional agenda CategoriesAdvocacy

How the UAE became a key enabler of Israel’s regional agenda

There is increasing pressure to exclude the Emirati regime from the Arab system due to rising evidence of Abu Dhabi’s alignment against regional security and its antagonism towards the Palestinian cause, all while it seeks a complete alliance with Israel. For many years, the UAE has opposed Arab revolutions and consistently aligned against democratic movements. […]

Sudanese General accuses UAE of fueling war, calls Bin Zayed “Devil of the Arabs” CategoriesAdvocacy

Sudanese General accuses UAE of fueling war, calls Bin Zayed “Devil of the Arabs”

Amidst Sudan’s bloody conflict, the UAE emerges as one of the most enigmatic players. The oil-rich monarchy positioned itself as a mediator for peace while quietly fueling war behind the scenes. General Yasser Al-Atta — a member of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council and the second-in-command of the armed forces — recently made statements directly accusing the […]

UAE’s $1.4 Trillion U.S. Investment, buying influence amid U.S. support for Israel CategoriesAdvocacy

UAE’s $1.4 Trillion U.S. Investment, buying influence amid U.S. support for Israel

An impressive move at a critical time, the United Arab Emirates announced a massive investment commitment of $1.4 trillion in the U.S. economy by the end of this decade as part of its efforts to strengthen economic and political connections with Washington. The announcement came after a discussion between UAE National Security Advisor Tahnoun bin Zayed […]

How Israel and the West enable UAE’s covert operations in Europe CategoriesAdvocacy

How Israel and the West enable UAE’s covert operations in Europe

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is carrying out covert operations, intelligence warfare and espionage in Europe, backed by Israel and allowed by the West—part of the Emirate’s strategy to boost its rogue influence. TheDarkBox’s intelligence-focused account shed light on how the UAE exploits Europe while dodging accountability. According to the account, the UAE’s increasing influence […]