Human Rights Watch

As climate change activists engage in peaceful protest across Europe, some states have reacted with heavy-handed policing, and by effectively criminalising such activism, imposing restrictions on protests, and conducting smear campaigns.

“Saudi courts mete out decades long sentences to ordinary citizens for nothing more than peacefully expressing themselves online.”

The EU should accelerate legal action against Hungary and seek the suspension of the repressive Law on the Protection of National Sovereignty.

The new law imposes onerous registration requirements on online publications and gives the government power to interfere with the work of foreign journalists if their materials contain “propaganda of extremism.”

The state’s actions have created an environment of censorship and discrimination in classrooms that harms education for all Florida students but is especially hostile in its impact on Black Floridians and LGBTQ Floridians.

Ninety-three member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have declared their “unwavering support” for the court in the face of recent threats emanating from the US and Israel.

The SSA’s broad powers under the counterterrorism law has enabled its civic space crackdown.

Human rights and sports organisations urge the International Olympic Committee to publicly call on sporting authorities in France to overturn all bans on athletes wearing the hijab in French sport.