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Photo by Chickenonline on pixabay.com On January 6, 2026, a drone attack occurred in Kokoloko, a village in western Niger, about 120 kilometres west of the capital, Niamey. Apparently, the attack was carried out by the Nigerien military to counteract the Islamic State in the Sahel (IS Sahel), an Islamist armed group which, according to the residents, has been active in the region for several years now. Three Islamist fighters were killed during the attack, which was conducted

Photo by Kelly on pexels.com   A recent United Nations (UN) report has unveiled the massive extent of child exploitation and abuse in Haiti. As armed groups traffic underage boys and girls and force them into criminal activities, the international community is calling for concrete actions to stop further human rights violations. The  report , published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, highlighted that 26 armed g

Photo by Ahmad Shakir Shamsulbadri on pexels.com   2026 has barely begun, yet the United States has already carried out a deportation program that places asylum seekers and stateless persons into arbitrary detention in a third country. Under a secret arrangement  with Cameroon, seventeen individuals from nine African nations were removed from the United States despite court orders  protecting many from returning to their home countries. Upon arrival in Yaoundé, the Cameroonia

Photo by Markus Spiske on unsplash.com International scrutiny of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, occupied since 1967, has intensified not only on the ground but also within global political arenas.  In February 2026, several European ministers from France, Germany Austria, and Czechia publicly called for the resignation of Francesca Albanese,  the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The issue arose

Photo by @padri nan on Pixabay.com   Major donor nations are dealing a detrimental blow to the right to health for millions of people worldwide as they make major cuts to funding for global health aid programmes. Most of these cuts come to the WHO Global Fund, which is a fund for health aid covering programmes to fight tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS . These cuts, especially those made by the US, are however affecting other areas of global health, such as programmes targeting

Photo on pixabay.com In December 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted “ a decision and a regulation establishing a global human rights sanctions regime ”. This innovative framework allowed the EU to target individuals, entities, and bodies, whether as State actors or non-State actors, “ responsible for, involved in or associated with serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide, no matter where they occurred ”. The acts for which this framework was designed

Photo by Shimabdinzade on Pixabay.com Iran’s human rights crisis has entered a dramatically darker phase in 2025–2026, marked by mass executions, lethal repression of protests, systematic torture, and widespread arbitrary detention. According to Human Rights Watch in its World Report 2026, Iranian authorities executed more than 2,000 people in 2025, the highest documented annual figure since the late 1980s. Over half of these executions were reportedly for drug-related offens

Photo by Jahra Tasfia Reza on pexels.com   Evidence shows that the mangrove forest managed by women from Enggros village in Indonesia is under threat . As pollution and third-party development expand across the country, mangrove forests in Indonesia's Papua region that sustain indigenous traditions, are shrinking. Mangrove forests are an important part of indigenous traditions in the region. In recent years, the local population has reported a range of changes that are progre

Photo by Timon Cornelissen on pexels.com   The battle over accountability for grave human rights abuses is not confined to conflict zones or authoritarian crackdowns. In The Gambia, the Supreme Court is poised to rule on a constitutional challenge to the 2015 Women’s (Amendment) Act , which criminalises female genital mutilation (FGM).  Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia, typically performed on young girls withou

Photo by Ravi Sharma on unsplash.com The UK’s controversial “one in, one out”  asylum policy, a bilateral return and resettlement agreement with France aimed at discouraging small boat Channel crossings, is facing mounting scrutiny from rights groups, legal challenges,s and data analysts as 2026 unfolds. Under the pilot scheme launched in August 2025,  the UK detains some people arriving irregularly by small boat and returns them to France. In exchange, France agrees to trans