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The Zambian government’s decision to postpone RightsCon 2026, effectively canceling the summit, raises concerns about the authorities’ commitment to free expression and assembly and about possible Chinese government interference.

Nepal’s recently elected Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, which came to power on a wave of popular demands for change, should use this opportunity to bring lasting protections for human rights and the rule of law.

The atrocity prevention community faces an existential question: How do we continue our work when the fundamental norm of trying to stop mass atrocities no longer appears to be a given?

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The European Parliament adopted on Tuesday a resolution calling on the European Commission to make consent the determining factor in rape legislation across the EU, with 447 members voting “for,” 160 “against,” and 43 abstaining.

Nepali authorities have stopped processing applications for transgender people to change their legal gender on identity documents, regressing on years of progress and undermining the fundamental right of recognition before the law. Policymakers in Nepal should reject attempts to undermine the fundamental rights of sexual and gender minorities.

The Israeli parliament’s new death penalty legislation, adopted on 30 March 2026, is discriminatory by design, and applicable primarily, if not exclusively, to Palestinians in practice.

One decision has marked Bernardo Arévalo’s term as president of Guatemala perhaps more than any other: He has not tried to unilaterally remove the Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, who sought to prevent him from taking office.

A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected on April 24 the government’s denial of the right to seek asylum for asylum seekers who arrive at the southern border.