Fereshta Abbasi explains why the European Commission inviting Taliban for a meeting on migration talks sends the wrong message at the wrong time.

In Vietnam, more than 160 political prisoners are currently locked up simply for exercising their basic rights. Rights bloggers and activists face police harassment, intimidation, surveillance, and interrogation on a daily basis. Activists face long stints of pre-trial detention, without access to lawyers or family in a one-party police state that tolerates no dissent.

Stigma, Insecurity, Lack of Accommodations Undermine Rights

Arbitrary Detention, Killings, and Forced Recruitment by the M23 and Rwanda Defence Forces

In late 2024, the international football association (FIFA) announced that Saudi Arabia would host the 2034 World Cup. This means the world’s largest sporting event will be taking place in a country where the government imprisons scores of activists and dissidents for peaceful criticism, denies women fundamental civil and

Since March 18, Iranian authorities have executed at least 28 people on politically motivated charges. UN member states should urgently pressure Iran to put an end to these executions.

European Union-produced surveillance technology has been used in dozens of countries worldwide as well as by countries in Europe. Many of these governments unlawfully or arbitrarily surveil activists or journalists, violating their rights to privacy, undermining free expression and association, and threatening their personal security and lives. The European Union hosts many of the surveillance companies working worldwide: The majority of EU member state have at least one surveillance technology company operating inside its borders. In a 2024 report by Google’s Threat Analysis Group on the commercial surveillance industry, all but two companies mentioned are based in the European Union.

Now that Maung has learned about the history of the Rohingya community, he begins working towards an escape route. He hopes to leave the refugee camp and get an education so that he can advocate for his community. But his freedom of movement is limited and educational resources are scarce. This week, host Ngofeen Mputubwele

Now that he’s arrived in Bangladesh, Maung finds himself stuck in an in-between. He’s safe from the violence he faced in his home state of Rakhine, Myanmar, but there are restrictions on his freedom of movement, limiting his education and leaving him to grapple with the history that brought his community to the world’s

When Maung and his  family, his neighbors, strangers, cross the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh, they are officially refugees. But there’s no rest for the weary, and the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees escaping to Bangladesh have to build a refugee camp for themselves. As Maung helps his family assemble a