Famine in Gaza puts 132,000 children under five at risk of death
LONDON/GENEVA — At least 132,000 children under the age of five in Gaza are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition, Save the Children said Friday, as international monitors confirmed
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Laos releases over 130 million lab-bred mosquitoes to combat dengue after record global surge
VIENTIANE — Laos has begun releasing more than 130 million lab-bred mosquitoes carrying a bacteria that reduces their ability to transmit deadly viruses, in an effort to curb dengue fever
Rights groups urge Maldives to scrap death penalty plans
Nine human rights organizations on Wednesday urged the Maldives to drop a proposal to impose the death penalty for drug trafficking, warning the move would breach the country’s international obligations
Rights groups demand UAE free missing Turkish-Egyptian poet
CAIRO – More than two dozen human rights organisations on Tuesday demanded the United Arab Emirates immediately reveal the fate of Turkish-Egyptian poet and dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who has
One Afghan child returns home every 30 seconds, group warns
KABUL, Aug. 11, 2025 – One child is returning to Afghanistan from Iran or Pakistan roughly every 30 seconds, Save the Children warned Monday, as the war-torn nation struggles with
Australia urged to set rights benchmarks for Vietnam ahead of annual talks
Australia should press Vietnam to meet clear and measurable human rights benchmarks during their annual bilateral dialogue, Human Rights Watch said Monday, warning that two decades of talks have produced
ASEAN’s rejection of Myanmar junta’s sham election and embrace of Timor-Leste marks turning point
In a move welcomed by 237 civil society organizations across Myanmar, Southeast Asia, and beyond, ASEAN declared on July 11 that Myanmar’s military junta’s proposed election “is not a priority”
Two decades later, families of Pakistan’s disappeared still seek truth and justice
July 30, 2025, marked 20 years since the enforced disappearances of Masood Ahmed Janjua and Faisal Faraz—two Pakistani men whose unresolved cases have come to symbolize the country’s crisis of
HRW says Russia’s internet control deepens isolation, rights violations
Russia has intensified online censorship, internet disruptions and surveillance since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, creating an increasingly isolated and tightly controlled digital space, Human Rights Watch
A year after Hasina’s fall, Bangladesh’s rights reforms falter
DHAKA, Bangladesh — One year after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid a violent uprising, Bangladesh’s interim government led by Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus is struggling to deliver
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