#Human Rights

#Human Rights

"At the end of the day, we have to choose our hard," Kwekweza told DW. "If you're abducted for speaking truth to power, if you're in prison for speaking truth to power, it's hard, but if you're waking up and you're living a life, a shell of a life that is limited in opportunity and possibility, that is also hard."

Speaking at a summit in Rome alongside Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Meloni said her right-wing government was determined to forge ahead with its scheme of sending migrants and asylum seekers outside the EU while their claims are processed. Certainly, the protocol will work when the new [EU] migration and asylum pact comes into effect, Meloni said on Thursday, citing a legal framework slated for 2026. When the migration and asylum pact comes into effect, the centres will operate exactly as they should have from the beginning.

Paul Pogba and Hakim Ziyech join letter saying that venues should not welcome a regime that commits genocide'. Dozens of athletes have joined rights groups in calling for the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to suspend Israel due to rights abuses against Palestinians. In a letter delivered to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Tuesday, Athletes for Peace, a group that includes more than 70 sports professionals, backed a call for the governing body to sever ties with the Israel Football Association (IFA).

According to opposition groups, who have dubbed it the gag law, one of the most alarming aspects is the total power granted to the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (TELCOR). At the head of this agency is Nahima Diaz Flores, daughter of the National Police Chief, Commissioner Francisco Diaz, and sister-in-law of one of the presidential couple's sons.

According to the draft text, the death penalty would apply to individuals who kill Israelis out of racist motives and with the aim of harming the State of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in its land, The Times of Israel reported. Critics said the wording means that in practice, the death penalty would apply almost exclusively to Arabs who kill Jews, not to Jewish hardliners who carry out attacks on Palestinians. Attempts to introduce similar legislation have failed in the past.

Speaking during the inquiry's second evidence session on 29 October 2025, expert witnesses told Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights that, as it stands, the UK's "uncritical and deregulatory" approach to AI will fail to deal with the clear human rights harms presented by the technology. This includes harms related to surveillance and automated decision-making, which can variously impact both collective and individual rights to privacy, non-discrimination, and freedom of assembly; especially given the speed and scale at which the technology operates.

Not content with holding title to one of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the world, Uganda's parliament is considering a bill that would outlaw identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. The country's Anti-Homosexuality Act, passed in 2023, already provides a sentence of life in prison for gay men who have sexual relations, and in extenuating circumstances, even death. The new measure would criminalize Ugandans for simply saying they're anything but straight.

Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has said his government will seek an independent investigation into what he called a disastrous police massacre that left at least 121 people dead. Four officers and at least 117 others were killed when police launched a major assault on two of Rio's largest clusters of favelas, the Complexo do Alemao and the Complexo da Penha, early last Tuesday to execute 100 arrest warrants.

The Convention took five years to develop and has three purposes: Promote and strengthen measures to prevent and combat cybercrime more efficiently and effectively; Promote, facilitate and strengthen international cooperation in preventing and combating cybercrime; and Promote, facilitate and support technical assistance and capacity-building to prevent and combat cybercrime, in particular for the benefit of developing countries. Those goals are hard to oppose.

The senators' letter cites an AP investigation this month that revealed several examples of ICE using the device on people - sometimes for hours - on deportation flights dating to 2020. Van Hollen was joined by U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Alex Padilla of California, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, and six others. The WRAP is the subject of several federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and even torture.

The LOI presents a structural flaw that undermines compliance with the principles of legality, legitimate purpose, suitability, necessity, and proportionality; it inverts the rule and the exception, with serious harm to rights enshrined constitutionally and under the Convention; and it prioritizes indeterminate state interests, in contravention of the ultimate aim of intelligence activities and state action, namely the protection of individuals, their rights, and freedoms.

A group of United States lawmakers have urged the Trump administration to secure the release of a 16-year-old Palestinian American who has been held in Israeli detention centres for eight months. In a letter sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, 27 members of the US Congress called for the release of Mohammed Ibrahim amid reports that he faces abusive conditions in detention.

Settler violence in the West Bank getting worse and worse Quotable Jasper Nathaniel, Independent Journalist, discusses the recent attack on a Palestinian woman and the rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Video Duration 00 minutes 55 seconds 00:55 Video Duration 01 minutes 15 seconds 01:15 Video Duration 01 minutes 09 seconds 01:09 Video Duration 01 minutes 27 seconds 01:27 Video Duration 01 minutes 29 seconds 01:29 Video Duration 01 minutes 19 seconds 01:19 Video Duration 01 minutes 14 seconds 01:14

Right now, you just talked about Israelis killing some Palestinians, but Hamas is killing Palestinians within Gaza. And they have not returned the bodies that they promised to return, including two Americans, Itay Chen and Omer Neutra, whose families we have interviewed over these months, observed MacCallum before asking, So what is your response to what Hamas is doing now?

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to their attorney, he said, the officers refused and straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded them onto a plane.

"This attack constitutes a serious aggression not only against them but against all the work of protecting and promoting human rights in the region," said Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who was last week awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pro-democracy activism. Writing on social media, Machado said that Velasquez and Peche had been "persecuted" in Venezuela by the regime of leaderNicolas Maduro, and called on the Colombian government to conduct a "thorough, transparent, and urgent investigation."

So there's a lot of respect, and I think you'll see some tremendous progress, both in the Middle East. This country is doing very well. It has good leadership, Trump said of Sisi, who came to power following a coup in 2013 and has since been accused of widespread oppression and anti-democratic tactics. Trump continued: It's about leadership, and it's really nice when you say, How is your crime situation? and they don't even know what you're talking about.

Ali al-Ahmed didn't think that Elon Musk was responsible for the decline and fall of Twitter. Musk was another face representing an old regime. And its sins began well before Musk bumbled into Twitter HQ, in October 2022, carrying a porcelain sink. (In an attempt at humour, Musk posted a video of himself arriving at the Twitter offices carrying a sink with the caption Entering Twitter HQ let that sink in!)

All of these sanctimonious cunts out there who don't really sincerely give a shit, he said. If you actually give a fuck about those people and how they're living over there, there's gonna have to be these types of things to pull them in. And I will tell you, the Cheesecake Factory in Riyadh, it's incredible. It's right next to Pizza Hut and KFC, and if you want a pair of Timberlands, it's across the street next to the Marriott, catty-corner to the fucking Hilton.