Algerian authorities must clarify the legal basis for the forced return of former parliamentarian and government critic Seifeddine Makhlouf to Tunisia on 18 January, despite the fact that he was a registered asylum seeker with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Amnesty International said today. This return amounts to refoulement, a violation under international law.   The Algerian authorities should ensure that procedural safeguards are put in place […]

Protests erupted in Iran on 28 December 2025. People across the country, outraged at decades of repression, were demanding fundamental change and a political system that respects human rights and dignity. Iranian authorities have responded with an unprecedented deadly crackdown and, since 8 January 2026, cut all internet access to conceal their crimes. Security forces […]

Reacting to media reports that states such as Russia, Türkiye and Tajikistan are extensively misusing Interpol red notices to target political dissidents and to repress human rights defenders, Erika Guevara Rosas Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns of Amnesty International said: “Media reports that Interpol red notices are being extensively misused, without internal […]

Click to expand Image Displaced people from Darfur, who are now sheltering in El-Afadh camp, Al Dabbah, Sudan, November 13, 2025. © 2025 Marwan Ali/AP Photo On January 19, International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan briefed the United Nations Security Council on her office’s ongoing investigation in Darfur, Sudan. Deputy Prosecutor Khan had to attend […]

Click to expand Image Plaintiffs holding flags declaring the verdict in front of the Tokyo district court main gate, January 26, 2026. © 2026 Kanae Doi/Human Rights Watch In a January 26 ruling, a Japanese district court held the North Korean government liable for grave human rights violations against Koreans and Japanese citizens lured to […]

Click to expand Image A simulation of Bhutan’s proposed Gelephu Mindfulness City, announced by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on December 17, 2023. © 2023 Bjarke Ingels Group/BRICK VISUAL/Cover Images via Reuters As Bhutan’s prime minister Tshering Tobgay tours Europe this week seeking investments in the “Gelephu Mindfulness City” mega-project, European leaders should urge him […]

Click to expand Image Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on August 23, 2020. © 2020 Andre Penner/AP Photo January 2026 was meant to be when the government of the Brazilian state of Pará would roll out a new system, initially announced in 2023, […]

Click to expand Image Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) speaks at a press conference on the need to provide the full suite of reproductive healthcare services to veterans in all states, Washington, DC, US, September 27, 2022. © 2022 Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP Photo Another Trump administration rollback on abortion access goes into effect on February 1, […]