More than 30,000 petition signatories demanded the immediate release of 27‐year‐old Egyptian student Oqba Hashad, Amnesty International reported Thursday. According to the group, Oqba Hashad was ...

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international ...

There’s much talk these days about democracy being under threat at home and around the world. Most of this discussion tends to be focused on efforts by autocrats and their supporters to erode the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) condemned the sentencing of Moroccan political activist and human rights defender Fouad Abdelmoumni to six months in prison for ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” or mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home, handing gun control groups a rare ...

US President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to vacate an order by a district court that reinstated federal grants to address teacher shortages. The Trump ...

I attended a training by the Diaspora Alliance about the worrying rise of instrumentalized antisemitism. The Diaspora Alliance describes instrumentalized antisemitism as the use by ...

The National Jury of Elections (JNE) issued on Tuesday deadlines for authorities to resign, and deadlines for high-ranking officials planning to run for office in the 2026 General Elections. JNE ...

Algeria's Criminal Court of Dar El Beïda sentenced renowned 80-year-old French-Algerian writer and outspoken critic Boualem Sansal to five years in prison and fined him 500,000 Algerian dinars on ...

The acting clerk of Ulster County, New York rejected on Thursday to file a $100,000 judgment against a doctor who is accused of unlawfully providing abortion-inducing drugs to a Texas woman.

UNICEF warned on Wednesday that approximately 825,000 children are trapped by escalating violence and severe food shortages ...

The government of Queensland, Australia initiated Thursday an independent review into the use of paediatric gender hormone therapy. While the final report is due by 30 November 2025, the pause on ...