Lawmakers in the Czech Republic's upper house Senate narrowly voted against ratifying a decade-old international treaty aimed at preventing and combating violence against women.

Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year—the most since 2014—as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the United Nations refugee agency.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said nearly 4,500 Rohingya people took boats across the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal in 2023, fleeing crowded refugee camps in Bangladesh or persecution in their native Myanmar.

There were nearly 5,000 homicides counted in Haiti last year, more than double than in 2022, a United Nations report said on January 23, as the country endures rampant gang violence amid the near-collapse of its political institutions.

The small Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, has seen years of declining security due to raging gang violence, with its political, economic, and public health systems also in tatters. According to the report, a total of 4,789 homicides were registered in 2023, an increase of 119.4 percent over the previous year.

Thousands of people protested in Tanzania on January 24 against proposed changes to electoral laws, in the largest public demonstration since the government lifted a ban on opposition political rallies in January 2023.

Denmark’s defense ministry said it would launch a review after evidence emerged showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011, the first time any of the 10 countries involved in the NATO bombing campaign has acknowledged a possible link to non-combatant casualties.

ICTJ is pleased to announce the winners of its “Overseas” writing contest. In it, young people originally from or currently residing in Lebanon, Libya, or Tunisia who have left their home countries for political or socioeconomic reasons were asked to share their personal experiences of migration in the form of a short, written testimony.

What does the obligation to provide reparations mean when serious human rights violations are at issue? This report explores the evolving interpretation of the right to reparation in international law and jurisprudence and how domestic courts have provided judicial reparations at the national level. It provides guidance to human rights defenders and courts that are trying to respond to victims of such violations in ways that affirm their dignity.

One of the EU’s most senior diplomats has criticized the Israeli foreign minister for not properly engaging with a summit in Brussels designed to pave the way for a peace plan in the Middle East.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, told reporters Israel Katz had come to the meeting to present plans for an artificial island off the coast of Gaza and a railway to India, concepts that had nothing to do with the peace talks.

Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has announced a review of state-run museums to enable them to “move past a colonial framing” of people and the past, and has pledged to fight against political meddling and censorship of the arts.