Brazil’s human rights minister sacked over sexual harassment allegations

Removal of popular cabinet member Silvio Almeida comes as a blow to Lula’s administration.

UN human rights chief accuses Israel of showing ‘blatant disregard’ for international law

Israel denies all such allegations in Gaza, as well as the occupiued West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Sudan rejects UN call for peace force to protect civilians

Sudan’s military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to protect civilians from the country’s ongoing civil war.

Human rights groups from Iran and East Kurdistan condemn death sentence against Pakhshan Azizi

26 human rights organizations have called on the Iranian judiciary to overturn the death sentence against Pakhshan Azizi.

US greenlights military assistance to Egypt, overruling rights concerns

Biden administration approves $1.3bn in military aid for Egypt, despite reports that rights abuses remain widespread.

Is It Time to Declare a Moratorium on the Death Penalty in Bangladesh?

With the interim government’s commitment to investigate enforced disappearances, another form of state-sanctioned killing, the practice of the death penalty, ought to face the same scrutiny.

‘Permission to Kill’: book highlights Mexican drug-war murders

Innocent civilians have been murdered in the name of Mexico’s war on drug cartels by military personnel eager to show results, according to a new book that alleges the killings constitute war crimes.

France, Germany, UK sanction Iran for supplying missiles to Russia

“This is a further escalation … and will see Iranian missiles reaching European soil,” the three countries say.

N. Korea slams UN report on its human rights as ‘fabricated’ document

North Korea on Monday condemned a recent United Nations report on the North’s human rights abuses as a document “fabricating and distorting” Pyongyang’s rights situation.