Uganda’s electoral commission has declared President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 15 elections, securing his seventh term in office with 71 percent of the vote.
During the first year of its second term in office, the Trump administration has embraced a wide range of authoritarian tactics, policies, and actions that undermine human rights protections.
Ahead of the first session of the Conference Preparatory Committee and the Working Group for the negotiations of a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity, which will meet from 19 to 30 January
2026, the undersigned organizations urge all states to enable full, effective and broad participation of persons with
disabilities and their representatives and ensure the protection and rights of persons with disabilities in the future
Convention.
Mozambique authorities need to urgently and impartially investigate the killing of three dozen artisanal gold and gemstone miners during clashes with the police on December 29, 2025, in Nampula province.
The Sri Lanka government’s proposed counterterrorism legislation includes numerous provisions similar to the current abusive law and risks facilitating the same kind of repression.
The recent death of Sha Bahadur Gurung, one of Bhutan’s longest serving political prisoners, is a tragic reminder of the injustice and needless suffering endured by alleged government critics in Bhutan’s grim prisons.
The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council should use its January 19 ambassadorial-level meeting to address the urgent protection needs and escalating abuses in South Sudan.
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to address an unprecedented escalation in mass unlawful killings of protesters, amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed since 8 January to conceal grave human rights violations and crimes under international law by Iranian authorities.
On January 19, a process that has been 80 years in the making will get underway at United Nations headquarters in New York. Member states will begin preparation mandated by the General Assembly to create an international treaty to prevent and punish crimes against humanity.