#Human Rights

#Human Rights

South Korean authorities found Dong Guangping, a former policeman who was imprisoned in China for his activism, drifting in a small rubber boat off the coast of Taean County, in South Chungcheong Province, on Monday night, police said. He has been detained and is being questioned for allegedly violating South Korean immigration laws, the Taean coast guard said in a statement. Dong's lawyer, Kim Joo-kwang, confirmed his identity to the AFP news agency.

Dahmani was arrested in May 2024 at the headquarters of the Bar Association by masked police officers, in what her colleagues described as a brutal and illegal operation. She was released on conditional parole last November after more than 18 months in detention. Human rights organisations have raised alarm over what they describe as a sharp increase in repression since Saied seized power in a coup in July 2021.

A bicyclist whose dark, flowing burka enfolds her body from head to ankles sits with hands perched on the handlebar, seemingly undaunted by the meshed veil that covers her eyes and restricts her sight. Her determination is suggested by the photo's title, "It will not stand in my way." A similarly clad figure swirls so swiftly that the billowing fabric appears to lift her into the air like a bird in flight; scribbled in Farsi across the brick wall in front of her is the phrase, "I dreamed that my homeland was prosperous."

Chow said Moscoe’s key passion was building a vibrant public transit infrastructure and promoting ridership growth. She added that he read virtually every City Council and TTC report and had an encyclopaedic memory of their content, bringing it to Council and TTC meetings. She also said he advocated for WheelTrans and taxi drivers and supported giving the province control of the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the landmark legislation at the Elysee presidential palace on Thursday, Macron said the continued existence of the royal decrees was a "form of offence" and "a betrayal of what the Republic stands for". "That is why I am asking the government to take up the bill aimed at repealing the ," Macron said. On Wednesday, lawmakers on the National Assembly's law committee backed the bill, which now needs to go to a vote in both houses.

The Philippine government on Thursday ordered law enforcement agencies to arrest Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who is wanted by the ICC over his role in former president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly "war on drugs" campaign. Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida told reporters that Philippine law enforcement agencies "are now tasked to effect the arrest of Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa." He is better known by his nickname "Bato," meaning "Rock."

141 UN member states voted in support of the ICJ's finding climate change is an existential threat'. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to support a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which found states have a legal responsibility to act to prevent the climate crisis from worsening. More than two-thirds of UN member states, 141, voted in favour of the resolution on Wednesday, with eight voting no and 28 abstaining.

People are facing rising costs and growing pressures on farmers and businesses, alongside increasing insecurity and concerns about Europe's competitiveness in a rapidly changing world.

The Norwegian appeals court dismissed the extradition request for the activist accused of facilitating the illegal entry of people into Greece, calling the decision a rare victory for human rights. Lawyers for Tommy Olsen said the judgment was unprecedented, with the court unanimously rejecting the request and stating his actions were lawful and protected under international treaties binding both countries. The court also acknowledged that the charge was absurd, given that Olsen was charged with monitoring and reporting people in distress at sea.

Between 1995 and 1999, more than 12,000 Tibetans successfully sought exile. In the past five years, that number has plummeted to just 81. With fewer Tibetans able to leave, independent information is becoming scarcer, making Beijing's policies, like religious regulation, language reforms, or rural relocation, more opaque to the outside world. This comes as Beijing increasingly promotes its own narratives on development and stability in Tibet.

India is currently ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index. A tricky encounter with a Norwegian journalist has shone a light on the reluctance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and members of his government to engage directly with the media on uncomfortable issues. After Helle Lyng Svendsen from Norwegian daily Dagsavisen asked Modi why he wouldn't take questions from the press, and later the same day asked a senior official of India's Ministry of External Affairs about India's human rights record, Modi's response was to walk away without replying while his minister's was to try to deflect by talking about unrelated facets of India's past and present, and then to become visibly angry.

When Gabon's media regulator indefinitely suspended major social media platforms in February, citing security concerns during anti-government protests, it became the talk of town literally. Within weeks of the announcement, use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass the restrictions surged in the central African country. When gendarmerie began stopping young men at road checkpoints in the capital Libreville and other urban centres to confiscate mobile phones with VPNs installed or detain the owners, warnings spread by word of mouth.

Osama Khalid was just twelve years old when he began contributing to Wikipedia Arabic. In the height of the blogging era, he became a prolific blogger, publishing writings on his home country of Saudi Arabia, meetups he attended, and his opinions and observations about open source technology and freedom of expression. He advocated for internet freedom, contributed time and translations to various projects-including EFF's HTTPS Everywhere -and was a thoughtful presence at the conferences he attended around the world...all while training to become a pediatrician.

“Growth at any cost leaves us all poorer.” Those were the words of United Nations secretary-general António Guterres last week at the launch of a landmark report, Counting What Counts, which he commissioned from a team of researchers and policymakers ( www.un.org/beyondgdp). It proposes how countries can move beyond gross domestic product (GDP), the world's main indicator for the health of economies.

Arbour is one of the country's most famous legal minds. A former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, she served as chief prosecutor for the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, where she pursued cases against political and military leaders accused of atrocities. She was later appointed the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights. In Canada, she led major public inquiries, including a landmark review into sexual violence within the Canadian Armed Forces.

Around 42.5 million refugees worldwide have been forced to flee their own states and are unable to return because of severe threats to their lives, human rights, or basic needs. Having fled these threats, the vast majority have by no means found protection. Instead, most refugees live either in squalid refugee camps or face destitution in urban areas in regions close to their own states in the Global South. A small minority risk their lives on journeys to reach asylum in the Global North; many thousands lose them.

Shireen's killing was meant to scare Palestinians into silence. Instead, it has inspired many young Palestinians to speak up. I can't remember a time in my childhood when I didn't hear Shireen Abu Akleh's voice. She was one of the few constants in our ever-shifting landscape, an icon that anchored the Palestinian cause firmly in the Arab conscience.

An 80-year-old Palestinian man, Hussein Asasa, died of natural causes on Friday and was buried shortly after in a cemetery in Asasa village near Jenin. His son, Mohammed, said the burial had been coordinated in advance with Israeli security forces, which provided all necessary permits. However, shortly after the burial, settlers threatened the Asasa family, ordering them to exhume the body, claiming it had been buried on land that formed part of an Israeli settlement.

More than 2,500 people had visas and tickets to fly to Zambia for RightsCon this month. That's an annual gathering of digital rights and human rights advocates. And then in late April, the team of RightsCon director Nikki Gladstone got a call from a Zambian official. NIKKI GLADSTONE: In that call, they let us know that diplomats from the People's Republic of China were putting pressure on the government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.

Families in Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago have spoken out after past attacks, insisting those targeted were not narco-terrorists as the Trump administration has claimed, but fishermen and informal workers making routine journeys between the Caribbean and South America.