Feb. 12 (UPI) --Bangladesh's former government systematically committed "serious human rights violations" against student-led protesters, with as many as 1,400 people killed and thousands of ...

Despite the relative media silence, and amid an intensifying campaign of institutional repression, the campus-based fight against the intolerable status quo has not ceased. Students remain at the ...

(Bangkok) – The rise of a new leader in Vietnam following a power shake-up in mid-2024 brought no reprieve from the government’s relentless repression of human rights, Human Rights Watch said ...

"Governments perpetrated 160 total incidents of physical transnational repression across 34 countries in 2024, including assassinations, abductions, assaults, detentions, and unlawful deportations" - ...

HBF’s legal action against the developers behind Kings Square, including Cimic Group and companies linked to Seven Network, continues in the state’s highest court. Cimic and the other entities denied ...

(Beirut) – The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the opportunity to establish a new ...

Citing evidence and reports, the organization highlights intensified repression of women and girls, a rise in executions, lack of fair trials, harassment of activists, students, journalists and ...

Conversations with former political dissents, activists and legal minds show that repression using partisan security services has been a running thread across the five regimes. Ominously ...

On February 5, six independent labor unions announced a joint decision to initiate seven collective labor disputes against the government, aiming to reinstate the dismissed employees. This marks the ...

On Jan. 21, the first day of the semester, pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the A.D White statue. The statue was spray-painted with “divest from death” and “occupation=death ...

The policing of a weekend protest in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza was alarmingly heavy-handed, bearing troubling echoes of the repression faced by early 19th-century reformers in the ...

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi from Jewish Voice for Labour said the arrests represent “a frightening lurch towards political repression in Britain.” “Statements from the Metropolitan Police, the Board of ...