Author: Madi Carpenter October 17, 2025 Asylum seekers board a train en route to Serbia from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. (Photo: Mirjana Nedeva/UN Women Europe and Central Asia. [Image Source: Article: Outsourcing Migration Management: The Rol.. | migrationpolicy.org ] The journeys of forced migrants are plagued by various challenges. The routes are often perilous, unpredictable, and underdeveloped. Many turn instead to informal routes for seeking refuge becaus

Author: Devin Windelspecht, MSc October 16, 2025 HRRC echoes calls for foreign reporters to be allowed into the Gaza Strip following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, and emphasizes the need for journalists to be permitted to independently report within Gaza without fear of intimidation or censorship. Displaced Palestinians walking to northern Gaza on October 10, 2025 [Image credit: AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana] Following a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that has b

Author: Peter Clarkin, MA October 16, 2025 HRRC condemns Microsoft’s ongoing business dealings with Israel. Human rights groups have accused the company of allowing the Israeli military to use its technology in human rights abuses. While some progress has been made, we urge Microsoft to take further action and to halt the use of their products by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. A signal intelligence–gathering installation of Unit 8200, an Israeli intelligence corps unit res

Author: Abigail Stofer October 15, 2025 Ellis Island [Image credit: National Park Service] We are living in a time of unprecedented mobility and global connectivity. Despite this, governments are investing more and more resources into limiting this mobility through border enforcement. A popular strategy is the use of island territories, either through diplomatic agreements or territorial possession, to deny or delay granting asylum — the protection granted by a nation to a re

Author: Anonymous October 14, 2025 From 2022 to 2024, Russia occupied over 20% of Ukraine's territory and caused almost 400,000 Ukrainian casualties (Center for Preventive Action, 2025). Included in this casualty toll are nearly 13,883 civilians, of whom 726 are children. This war has caused over 60,000–100,000 military deaths (Guardian, 2025). The Russian offensives have devastated key metropolitan districts, destroying much of the civilian infrastructure and more than 236,0

Author: Vera Rousseff October 14, 2025 HRRC strongly condemns the European Union’s hypocritical practice of exporting pesticides that are banned domestically. The European Commission must stick to its promises to end the export of banned pesticides, particularly to the Global South, where the substances pose especially serious health risks. A plane spraying pesticide in Costa Rica, where the Guardian has previously reported on the dangerous effects of chemicals imported from

October 13, 2025 Explore Our Latest Publications "Alligator Alcatraz": A Case Study in State-Run Detention and the Erosion of Human Rights by Danielle Castano, MA Leveraging Starvation: Studying the Weaponization of Humanitarian Aid in a Political World ` by Trisha Sayal LA’s Tourism And The Underpaid Workers Behind It: A Local Community Organizer Shares The Biggest Challenges and Solutions by Ioana Podarita HRRC News Briefs Iran Upholds Death Sentence of Political Prisoner

Author: Aamnah Fatima Khan October 13, 2025 HRRC strongly condemns the Bangladeshi interim government’s misuse of the amended Anti-Terrorism Act to silence dissent and target political opponents. Such actions represent a grave violation of fundamental rights and undermine the country’s path toward democracy and justice. Protesters celebrate after the interim government officially bans all activities of the Awami League under the Anti-Terrorism Act, pending the conclusion of t

Author: Devin Windelspecht, MSc October 9, 2025 HRRC applauds the International Criminal Court’s conviction of war criminal Ali Muhammad...

Author: Ioana Podarita October 9, 2025 [Image credit: UNITE HERE] Los Angeles’ economy has been a hot topic of discussion this past year,...

Author: Trisha Sayal October 8, 2025 Introduction Humanitarian aid is under attack — the perpetrators of which are capitalist, democratic...

Author: Vera Rousseff October 7, 2025 HRRC stands with the people of Madagascar as they demand systemic reform from their government. We...

Author: Danielle Castano, MA October 7, 2025 [Image credit: Mickenzie Hannon/Naples Daily News/USA Today-Network-Florida] Introduction In...

Author: Aamnah Fatima Khan October 7, 2025 HRRC strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s upholding of Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani’s death...

October 6, 2025 Explore Our Latest Publications Militarization Eroding Democracy: Ecuador’s Internal Armed Conflict by Santino Calcagno...