In its upcoming report, the Expert Mechanism will examine systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the enforcement of drug laws and policies,

In its resolution 60/26, adopted on 8 October 2025, the Human Rights Council requested OHCHR to prepare a report, in consultation with Member States, the

Rose a 32-year-old sex worker who was arrested in a police raid was a bundle of nerves when advocate Sunita Salsingikar first met her in

The ACHPR, through Resolution ACHPR/Res.594 (LXXX) 2024, mandated the development of a Joint Analytical Study to examine the challenges that hinder effective litigation of women’s and

Women Beyond Walls: UN human rights experts* today urged Member States to take action to strengthen protections for women and girls in criminal justice systems,

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) deplores the conviction of ten lawyers, including Ramazan Demir, a member of the defence team of  Selahattin Demirtaş, who remains

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) strongly condemns the Iranian authorities’ egregious use of widespread, excessive and lethal force to suppress ongoing anti-government demonstrations, in

Invisible People: The term “Criminalization of Homelessness” refers to a range of laws and ordinances that punish people simply for being homeless. According to Housing Not Handcuffs,

The Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA): Across Malawi, the poor are routinely jailed for failing to pay fines they cannot afford,

Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Today in Fiji, Commonwealth Law Ministers noted in their 2026 Outcome Statement satisfaction with the production of the Practitioners’ Guide on

VOCAL Africa calls for an immediate review and amendment of all counter-terror provisions that can be misapplied against citizens exercising their constitutional freedoms.A democratic nation

Orange County, CA – An Orange County Superior Court judge has enjoined Riverside County, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, and Sheriff Chad Bianco, stopping them from jailing people

Amnesty International: Reacting to the Russian Ministry of Justice’s move to seek to ban as “extremist” the leading LGBTI organizations in Russia – Russian LGBT

Amnesty International: Ahead of the parliamentary vote on legislative amendments announced by the Georgian Dream ruling party, which aim to further silence dissent and tighten

From a judicial crisis to a prison crisis Prison Insider: A third of Gabon’s population lives below the poverty line, according to the UN. The

Amnesty International: The Egyptian authorities have intensified their crackdown on religious expression online in recent months, said Amnesty International today, calling on the authorities to

Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC): In an era when digital infrastructures have a strong hold on everything from civic participation to surveillance, human rights interventions

Penal Reform International (PRI): Meaningful participation of people with lived experience in the EU and UN spaces is not a “nice extra” – it is

Sexual violence and family expulsion among the challenges facing African LBQ women  A new African Human Rights Coalition (AHRC) report reveals how lesbian, bisexual, and queer women

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes office, New York City stands at a crossroads. For decades, “public safety” in this city has been synonymous with policing, punishment,

Tina was 16 years old when she says she was forced to get married. She describes what followed as decades of “relentless” abuse, including being

New Zealand likes to present itself as the South Pacific’s moral leader. Abroad, its politicians speak fluently of bicultural partnership, equity, and human rights, invoking

Across the world, incarcerated pregnant women are often held in deplorable conditions, leading some to miscarry or give birth alone inside a cell, say campaigners

In this second episode of our special series, ‘ Equal Under the Law?’, we explore whether the law serves as a barrier or a tool

A Clear Breakdown of Key Terms to Help the Public Speak Up, Push for Housing Solutions, and Move Past Harmful Misconceptions Invisible People: It’s happened

Amnesty International: Responding to the cancellation of bail of lawyers and human rights defenders Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and an order to immediately arrest them in a bogus case relating to “anti-state” tweets, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy

British Columbia, Canada will not be continuing its drug decriminalization project, Health Minister Josie Osborne announced in Victoria Wednesday. The three-year pilot project, which allowed

Unprecedented Mass Prosecution of Xinjiang Protesters (London, January 15, 2026) – Kazakh authorities should drop charges against 18 Kazakh activists who peacefully protested against Chinese government abuses in Xinjiang,

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) are seriously concerned that a criminal case

Amnesty International: Ugandan security forces have unlawfully targeted opposition rallies with unnecessary and excessive force and arbitrary arrests, and subjected some attendees to torture or

Common-Sense Protections Soon to Be Enshrined in State Law Invisible People: Pennsylvanian lawmakers are taking steps to preserve the protections that homeless people lost after

Amnesty International: Civil disobedience is increasingly criminalized worldwide, despite its vital role in confronting government and corporate abuses, especially amid the climate crisis and other

Experts Warn That Punitive Laws Push Unhoused People into Danger While Worsening Stigma, Isolation, and Harm Invisible People: The growing criminalization of homelessness is contributing

Amnesty International: Following the release of a small number of persons arbitrarily detained in Venezuela on 8 January 2026 out of a total of around one thousand politically-motivated arbitrary detainees (according

National Homelessness Law Center: The annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day is this weekend. This year, like every year, people will gather across the country to

From the Daily Times, Malawi: Persons with disabilities in Malawi continue to face harsh realities on the streets. This is happening as the Constitutional Court

While fewer women than men are incarcerated, their numbers are rising faster and most often for non-violent offences. More than 733,000 women and girls are held

In an era when digital infrastructures have a strong hold on everything from civic participation to surveillance, human rights interventions must reckon with cyber politics

Incarceration should be a last resort, yet this broken and brutal system punishes marginalised women, most of whom are inside for non-violent crimes When you

FIACAT: In September-October 2025, ahead of the AU-EU human rights dialogue on 7 October, twenty civil society experts convened to discuss the current far-reaching and

Amnesty International: For too long, citizens, especially older women, have been victimized by witchcraft accusations in Ghana. This deeply rooted practice has led to untold

Sonke Gender Justice: As the world approaches the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), African feminist movements, youth advocates, policymakers, and grassroots organisations

Amnesty International: Kenyan authorities systematically deployed technology-facilitated violence as part of a coordinated and sustained campaign to suppress Generation Z-led protests between June 2024 and

A nonprofit human rights organization in Nigeria, Lawyers Alert has launched a campaign tagged “HealthNotHarm”, a strategic initiative aimed at reshaping national discourse on safe

Tunisian authorities have increasingly escalated their crackdown on human rights defenders and independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through arbitrary arrests, detention, asset freezes, bank restrictions and

Women Beyond Walls: Women are the fastest-growing prison population worldwide, often locked up for low-level drug offenses tied to poverty, coercion, or survival. In this

Language used maybe offensive to some readers  Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil

On a Tuesday afternoon in July, a magistrate sits inside a local prison in Malawi. A remandee stands before him and begins to share his