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Photo by Derks24 on pixabay.com   The climate crisis is posing a serious challenge to human rights worldwide. According to experts, urgent action is required to prevent further harm to basic rights, particularly as in 2025 the global temperature surpassed the limit of 1.5°C  for the first time in history. In 2025, several international institutions, including Human Rights Watch  and the European Union, underlined that climate change is contributing to a global decline in huma

Photo by José Santana Murias on Pexels.com In the first weeks of 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, became a focal point of protests, social tension and institutional conflict linked to operations carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to the broader federal immigration enforcement strategy adopted by the White House . The sequence of events, community reactions, legal actions and the national policy backdrop reveal a complex situation that goes wel

Photo by silvio mencare lli on pexels.com   In 2025, Saudi Arabian authorities set a new record, but not a positive one: at least 356 people were executed , the highest number recorded in a single year since systematic monitoring began. This surpasses the previous record of 345 executions in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of a dramatic increase in capital punishment. The scale of the phenomenon reveals a stark pattern. Nearly 70 percent of those sentenced to death

Photo by Andrés Silva   on Unsplash.com   In January 2026, the Venezuelan government announced that  116 prisoners had been released,  describing the move as an effort to ease political tensions. Human rights organizations immediately questioned the claim, arguing that the actual number of verified releases was significantly lower.  At the time of reporting, rights groups were only able to confirm the release of 41 detainees at the time of reporting , raising concerns over tr

Photo by consolersafari on Pixabay.com One month has passed since the Rwanda-backed  M23 group announced its withdrawal from the town of Uvira, Congo . The decision came after the U.S. administration heavily criticized the seizure of the town as a threat to the peace process brokered by Washington, which marked the latest escalation in the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Located in the north of Lake Tanganyika, in the South Kivu, Uvira is a port

Photo by Kaufdex on Pixabay.com After the US’ operation in Venezuela on the 3rd of January, with the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, the UN human rights office expressed concerns about a violation of international law and the danger of this action . Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN rights office, stated that the international community must be united in recognizing this violation and that “states must not threaten or use force against the territorial integri

Photo by Freeman Goldstar on Pexels.com The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has placed Sudan at the top of its annual Emergency Watchlist for 2026 , meaning that the current crisis could further escalate rapidly. It’s the third year in a row that Sudan is assigned this position. The data collected by the IRC accurately explains why: 67% of the population (33.7 million people out of 50.4 million of the total population) is in humanitarian need; between October 2025 and J