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This week, United States President Joe Biden announced that his administration has “held up” at least one shipment of 3,500 bombs and artillery shells to Israel, saying the US wouldn’t transfer certain weapons to Israel if it proceeded with an assault on the city of Rafah’s densely populated areas.

Transgender youth from California to Alabama are under threat due to a growing trend to pass policies mandating that school staff—and in some cases, any government employee—to disclose to their parents if a student identifies as transgender. This movement for what is being called “parental rights” is putting trans youth in danger and is disregarding their rights.

Germany’s government needs to explain publicly if it has imposed a Schengen-wide entry ban on a prominent British Palestinian surgeon and academic, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and, if so, the reasons why.

Journalists and human rights activists in Nigeria are protesting the arrest and detention of Daniel Ojukwu, a reporter at the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, who went missing in Lagos on May 1.

Three bills before the California State Legislature have proposed reinstating a harmful and discriminatory loitering ban.

Ethiopia's human rights situation deteriorated sharply since its last UPR on May 14, 2019. Since then, government forces, militias, and armed groups have been committing widespread abuses with impunity, resulting in grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Government efforts to address past and ongoing abuses, including atrocities carried out during armed conflict since 2020, have lacked transparency and independent oversight. Journalists, civil society organizations, and outspoken public figures have faced an increasingly hostile and restrictive environment, with government authorities resorting to arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention without charge.

In its new report, “The Massalit Will Not Come Home,” Human Rights Watch concludes that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an independent military force, and its allies, primarily Arab militias, are responsible for a campaign of ethnic cleansing, targeting the Massalit people and other non-Arab communities in West Darfur’s capital, El Geneina. The apparent objective was to permanently remove them from the city. Many of the abuses documented in this report constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.

As a child in West Darfur, Jamal Abdallah Khamis, a 29-year-old ethnic Massalit man, grew up surrounded by violence. In 2023, in El Geneina, the capital city of West Darfur where Jamal lived, RSF righters and its militias once again targeted Massalit and other non-Arab people. By mid-June, Jamal had fled for his life. “I didn’t think I would survive this,” he said.

The Georgian parliament’s introduction of a bill obliging certain nongovernmental groups and media outlets to register as “organizations serving the interests of a foreign power” threatens fundamental rights in the country, Human Rights Watch said today