Click to expand Image Children watch news reports about the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border, in Sisaket province in northeastern Thailand, July 27, 2025. © 2025 loy Phutpheng/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo A Cambodian government-controlled court sentenced two journalists to fourteen years in prison for treason after they appeared in a photograph with Cambodian […]
(New York) – Pakistani authorities should quash the unjust conviction of Junaid Hafeez, who was sentenced to death in 2013 under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws, Human Rights Watch said today. Hafeez’s 13 years in prison raise grave concerns about the lack of due process and the broader misuse of the country’s blasphemy laws. Police in Punjab […]
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards in solidarity with humanitarians who were still detained in Greece, November 18, 2021. © 2021 Hesther Ng/SOPA Images via AP Photo Led by Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor, five United Nations experts have issued a damning critique of Greece’s latest attempt to criminalize human rights defenders […]
Click to expand Image Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto (left) and US President Donald Trump in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. © 2025 Suzanne Plunkett/Getty Images On February 20, Indonesia and the United States agreed to a new trade deal, with US$15 billion specifically allocated for fossil fuel imports. This deal is part of a broader […]
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Between 2021 and 2023, 24 cases of femicide were recorded in Albania. While institutional measures to protect women have been stepped up, experts say a faster and more coordinated response is needed.
Chad has closed down its border with Sudan saying it does not want the conflict to spread. Experts accuse it, however, of supplying arms to the RSF, one of the warring factions.
The resumption of visa services at both countries’ consulates is a welcome sign, but analysts say there is a long way to go in rebuilding trust.
The Taliban claimed to have captured several Pakistani checkpoints in border areas, killing and capturing soldiers. Pakistan meanwhile said it launched "strong and effective response" with explosions reported in Kabul.
The UN on Thursday condemned the latest attacks against civilians in Ukraine by Russian forces, reiterating that they always constitute a violation of international law “and must stop immediately.”
