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Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world and part of the National Dialogue Quartet awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, in the latest move raising concerns over a widening crackdown...

Myanmar has imposed a state of emergency in 60 townships across nine states and regions, transferring sweeping powers to the military as authorities seek to contain ongoing violence, local media reported on Friday. The President’s Office said the emergency measures, declared Thursday, aim to...

A Salvadoran court on Tuesday began a collective trial of 486 alleged gang members, in one of the biggest mass trials under president Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers. Prosecutors say the charges against alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS...

The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatizing, and in breach of basic democratic values, setting up an early test for the incoming government when it takes power next month. In a wide-ranging judgment, the European court of justice said the 2021 law...

Burkina Faso’s military government has ordered the dissolution of more than 100 associations and civil society groups—which rights groups are calling an “attack” on basic rights. It is the latest crackdown in the West African country, months after the government issued a decree dissolving all...

Hungary's premier-elect Péter Magyar, who defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orban in weekend elections, vowed on Monday, April 13, to usher in "a new era." He urged President Tamas Sulyok, an Orban ally, to convene parliament "as soon as possible." Magyar's Tisza party won two-thirds majority in the...

Min Aung Hlaing, who as Myanmar ’s military commander had led the Southeast Asian nation with an iron fist since seizing power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in 2021, was sworn in as an elected president on Friday. His inauguration came after a general election judged by UN experts and...

Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday to protest what they say are violations of their land rights by large corporations advancing farming, logging, and mining projects. Indigenous leaders also sought to apply pressure on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has...

Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane. The passage of the bill marked the culmination of a...

Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, police said Monday. The gold mining site at Jebel Iraq in Central Equatoria State has in the past been the site of violent clashes involving illegal miners. Gold mining in South...