Thailand just officially unveiled its new Anti-Fake News Center that claims it will monitor and combat the spread of misleading information online. Human rights activists fear that the center will instead be used to stifle […]
Thailand’s government recently issued a nationwide order to universities compelling them to provide “intelligence” on Muslim students and their campus activities. The draconian order was issued by the Special Branch Bureau, an arm of the […]
The US House of Representatives recently passed the “Cambodia Democracy Act of 2019”. If passed by the Senate and signed into legislation by Donald Trump, the bill would allow the president to sanction high-level Cambodian […]
A Japanese court ruled that victims of forced sterilization are not owed compensation by the government once the 20-year statute of limitations expires. The “Eugenic Protection Law”, which was struck down as unconstitutional, allowed the […]
After intense backlash from the international community, the government of Brunei has stated that it will not stone to death those convicted of gay sex. Stoning to death for gay sex, adultery, and rape was […]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled last week that an Austrian woman’s freedom of expression was not violated after she called the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile. According to the court’s ruling, the Austrian […]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled last week that France’s banning of the niqab, an Islamic veil that covers the entire body except for the eyes, is a violation of human rights. The case […]
Amnesty International has joined other rights groups–including Human Rights Watch–in calling for the United Nations to institute an outright international ban on the use of “killer robots”, which they define as fully autonomous weapons systems. […]
Despite a host of laws and crackdowns targeting human trafficking–primarily for prostitution–by the ruling military junta in recent years, the problem is still widespread, according to rights groups. The two rights groups who did the […]
The Thai Justice Ministry and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), an international NGO, are working in unison to draw up guidelines that would prevent the torture of suspects in the custody of […]
