Intersectional Impacts: How Gender Rights Rollbacks Affect Marginalized Communities? Categoriesanalysis

Intersectional Impacts: How Gender Rights Rollbacks Affect Marginalized Communities?

The rollback of gender rights in 2025 demonstrates the complex and overlapping effects in the most marginalized communities around the world. Although legal changes may seem gender-neutral, their results are very different based on the subject: their results vary radically based on the race, the class, the geography, or the disability status of the individual. […]

WCHR Condemns Supreme Court-Enabling LA Immigration Raids Based on Race, Language, and Job Categoriesanalysis

WCHR Condemns Supreme Court-Enabling LA Immigration Raids Based on Race, Language, and Job

The ruling of the United States Supreme Court on September 8, 2025, to permit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to conduct race-based and occupation-centered immigration raids in Los Angeles, was consequential 6-3. This ruling struck down a restraining order of a federal district court that had stopped such practices as unconstitutional. The decision has […]

International Responses to Belarus’s Human Rights Lawyer Crackdown: Progress and Challenges Categoriesanalysis

International Responses to Belarus’s Human Rights Lawyer Crackdown: Progress and Challenges

In 2025, Belarus stepped up its crackdown on human rights attorneys and shifted disbarments and surveillance to criminalization of them. Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers (BAHRL) was declared by the government as an extremist formation, so it was a punishable crime to communicate or defend this organization. This action exposes members to prison terms […]

How Civil Society Shapes European Human Rights Law through Amicus Curiae Interventions? Categoriesanalysis

How civil society shapes European human rights law through amicus curiae interventions?

The civil society remains the major stakeholder in influencing European human rights law by filing amicus curiae briefs before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). They are commonly based on the documents completed by non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and lobbying groups that submit them with expert knowledge and contextual information to help judges sift […]

Boluarte’s dilemma: Reconciliation or whitewashing of human rights crimes? Categoriesanalysis

Boluarte’s dilemma: Reconciliation or whitewashing of human rights crimes?

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte approved a controversial amnesty law protecting members of the Peruvian armed forces, police and self-defense militias against prosecution on human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000. The decade was characterized by a conflict against the Shining Path and Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement as the state underwent […]

How civil society shapes European human rights law through amicus curiae interventions Categoriesanalysis

How civil society shapes European human rights law through amicus curiae interventions

The civil society remains the major stakeholder in influencing European human rights law by filing amicus curiae briefs before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). They are commonly based on the documents completed by non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and lobbying groups that submit them with expert knowledge and contextual information to help judges sift […]

The human toll of Myanmar’s military coup: Torture, killings, and international accountability Categoriesanalysis

The human toll of Myanmar’s military coup: Torture, killings, and international accountability

Myanmar has been in deep unrest since the military takeover in February 2021 with violence erupting and repression rising. This was followed by a brutal anti-dissent campaign and concentration of power with mass attacks by government forces on civilians. According to statistics gathered by the United Nations and a number of human rights organizations, the […]

Human rights in jeopardy: exposing conditions inside Louisiana ICE detention centers Categoriesanalysis

Human rights in jeopardy: exposing conditions inside Louisiana ICE detention centers

The problem of confronting inhuman rights violations in the U.S. immigration system can be even better understood in the context of the situation in Louisiana in 2025 in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. With the second-largest population of detainees in the country behind Texas with more than 7,000, Louisiana is the root […]

Legal clarity or human rights setback? Examining the UK trans equality ruling Categoriesanalysis

Legal clarity or human rights setback? Examining the UK trans equality ruling

On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court unanimously decided that the terms “woman,” “man,” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 are not based on legal gender identification, but rather on biological sex at birth. This decision overruled previous interpretations that had allowed transgender individuals with Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) to be recognized legally […]

Evictions in Assam: Human Rights, Legal Violations, and the Struggle for Justice Categoriesanalysis

Evictions in Assam: Human Rights, Legal Violations, and the Struggle for Justice

The fresh wave of evictions that is hitting Assam in the middle of the year 2025 has sparked renewed debate regarding the constitutional protection and the properties rights and citizen rights of the aboriginal and minority groups. During June and July alone, thousands of state residents were evicted off properties, which were declared as encroachments […]

Russia’s Recognition of the Taliban: A Blow to Human Rights and Afghan Aspirations Categoriesanalysis

Russia’s Recognition of the Taliban: A Blow to Human Rights and Afghan Aspirations

Russia started an unprecedented and quite doubtful step; on July 3, 2025, an official recognition of the Taliban as the legitimate Afghan Government was made. In a ceremony described by the Russian Foreign Ministry as “normalization of diplomatic procedure,” the Taliban flag was raised over the Afghan embassy in Moscow. The Taliban envoy Jamal Nasir […]

Ipsos 2025 Global Survey: Support for Refugees Holds Firm Amid Aid Cuts and Global Crises Categoriesanalysis

Ipsos 2025 Global Survey: Support for Refugees Holds Firm Amid Aid Cuts and Global Crises

In June 2025, Ipsos released its annual global survey on public attitudes toward refugees, coinciding with World Refugee Day. The findings arrive at a moment of unprecedented displacement, with more than 122 million people forcibly uprooted worldwide. Despite deepening geopolitical fragility and significant cuts in humanitarian aid, the survey reveals that public support for the […]

Invisible Chains: Structural Discrimination and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the UAE Categoriesanalysis

Invisible Chains: Structural Discrimination and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the UAE

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is celebrated globally for its rapid economic development, glittering cities, and cosmopolitan image. Yet, beneath the surface lies a starkly different reality for the country’s vast migrant workforce, which constitutes nearly 89% of the population. Despite their indispensable role in building and maintaining the nation’s infrastructure and prosperity, migrant workers—primarily […]

Massacre in Yelwata: Over 200 Christians Slaughtered by Fulani Jihadists Categoriesanalysis

Massacre in Yelwata: Over 200 Christians Slaughtered by Fulani Jihadists

On the night of June 13, 2025, the quiet farming village of Yelwata in Guma County, Benue State, Nigeria, was plunged into unspeakable horror. Over 200 Christians, including women, children, and displaced families, were brutally murdered in a coordinated attack by heavily armed Fulani jihadists. This massacre stands as one of the deadliest recent atrocities […]

How the UAE Masked Repression with Diplomacy and Climate Leadership in 2024 Categoriesanalysis

How the UAE Masked Repression with Diplomacy and Climate Leadership in 2024

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2024 presented a stark duality: while projecting an image of economic dynamism and global engagement—hosting high-profile events and maintaining international partnerships—it continued to intensify repression at home. The year was marked by mass trials, suppression of dissent, expanded fossil fuel production, and systemic neglect of migrant workers’ rights. This […]

Beneath the Surface: Human Rights, Climate, and Labor Challenges in the UAE Categoriesanalysis

Beneath the Surface: Human Rights, Climate, and Labor Challenges in the UAE

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has long sought to project an image of modernity, tolerance, and global engagement. In 2023 and 2024, this strategy was on full display as the UAE hosted COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and continued to invest in high-profile international partnerships. However, beneath this progressive façade, the UAE has […]

UAE in 2024: Repression, Migrant Exploitation, and Climate Policy Contradictions Categoriesanalysis

UAE in 2024: Repression, Migrant Exploitation, and Climate Policy Contradictions

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2024 continued to present a complex picture marked by economic ambition and international diplomacy, notably hosting the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), while simultaneously facing serious criticism for its human rights record, treatment of migrant workers, and climate policies. This analysis explores the multifaceted challenges the UAE faces, […]

UAE Migrant Workers: Rights Abuses Amid the UAE’s Green Energy Transition Categoriesanalysis

UAE Migrant Workers: Rights Abuses Amid the UAE’s Green Energy Transition

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has rapidly positioned itself as a global leader in renewable energy, launching ambitious projects like the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park and hosting COP28 to showcase its environmental commitments. Yet, behind the gleaming solar panels and wind farms lies a troubling reality: UAE migrant workers, who are the […]

Gulf States’ Heat Policies Endanger Migrant Workers: Urgent Reforms Needed Categoriesanalysis

Gulf States’ Heat Policies Endanger Migrant Workers: Urgent Reforms Needed

As global temperatures rise due to climate change, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman—face an escalating occupational health crisis. Millions of migrant workers, who form the backbone of the Gulf’s construction, service, and delivery sectors, are exposed to extreme heat conditions that threaten their health […]