Sources: Global Post
Delegates from Cambodia and Thailand meet in Malaysia, the current ASEAN chair seat, to negotiate a long-term ceasefire at their border following clashes that killed dozens of people and displaced over 270,000 others. 2025-08-4
The European Union European External Action Service finds that Israel may have breached its human rights obligations under the terms of the EU-Israel Association agreement governing its ties with the EU. 2025-06-21
Human rights organization Reprieve reports that Saudi Arabia executed 330 people this year. 2024-12-24
A people's court in Linshu County, Shandong, China, sentences prominent human rights and democracy activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for subverting state power. 2023-04-10
Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights society Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization The Center for Civil Liberties are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2022-10-7
Judge Paul Golspring of the Westminster Magistrates' Court refers to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to sign an extradition order to the United States for Julian Assange in relation to WikiLeaks concerning human rights abuses in the Guantanamo detention camp and the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan. 2022-04-20
An ombudsman report finds that the Victorian state government's decision to briefly impose a "hard lockdown" on public housing towers in July in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, not allowing anyone in or out, was a violation of human rights. The state government refuses to apologise to the tower residents despite the report's recommendations. 2020-12-17
The European Union and the ASEAN form a strategic partnership. 2020-12-1
The United States imposes sanctions on 18 "Magnitsky list" Russians accused of human rights violations. Russia threatens to retaliate. 2013-04-12
Iran arrests five human rights lawyers for security-related offences, the latest in a series of arrests of Iranian human rights' activists since last year's disputed presidential election. 2010-11-15