human rights organisations

Human Rights Watch is warning that reconstruction agreements in Syria are proceeding without critical human rights safeguards. The organisation says deals to rebuild the war-damaged country lack frameworks ensuring housing, land and property rights are protected, raising concerns that displaced Syrians could be excluded from recovery or lose their homes. The warning has been published in both English and Arabic to reach audiences inside Syria and internationally.

Human Rights Watch has published a piece titled 'The Inhumanity of the Algorithms', arguing that algorithmic systems used by governments and companies can produce harmful, dehumanising outcomes. The organisation is drawing attention to the human cost of automated decision-making and calling for stronger accountability over how such technologies affect people's rights.

Amnesty International says Türkiye's crackdown on LGBTI groups and activists is part of an escalating human rights crisis in the country. The organisation warns that authorities are intensifying pressure on civil society, with LGBTI activists facing detentions, bans and prosecution as broader restrictions on freedoms of assembly and expression deepen across Türkiye.

Amnesty International UK has condemned the arrests of protesters taking place outside the Labour Party Conference. The human rights organisation says the detentions of demonstrators at the conference site raise serious concerns about the right to peaceful protest in Britain. The statement criticises the police response to people gathered outside the venue during the party's annual gathering.

Civil society groups warn that the Houthi movement is forcing children to fight on Yemen's battlefields, a long-standing concern documented by human rights monitors during the country's decade-long war. Yemeni civil society organisations are renewing calls for accountability and international attention to child recruitment as fighting continues across the country.

A photo exhibition has opened in Lyon, France, aiming to raise public awareness of executions and human rights violations in Iran. The display documents what organisers describe as ongoing repression, and is drawing attention to the situation of prisoners and dissidents. Human rights campaigners hope it will spur French and European audiences to press for accountability from the Iranian authorities.