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IOC Shuts Down 12 Commissions — Including Human Rights and Gender Panels — in Major Coventry Shake-Up
The International Olympic Committee is dissolving 12 permanent commissions, including those on human rights and gender equality, as president Kirsty Coventry replaces them with smaller ad hoc expert working groups in a cost-cutting overhaul.
Senegal's LGBTQ+ Crackdown: More Than 320 Arrested, Hundreds Forced Into Hiding, HRW Says
A new Human Rights Watch report documents an escalating crackdown on LGBTQ+ people in Senegal: more than 320 arrested since February on 'acts against nature' allegations, dozens charged over their HIV status, and a sweeping new law that has lawyers and doctors afraid to help.
RJ Mitte, Breaking Bad's Walter White Jr. and disability rights advocate, dies at 34
RJ Mitte, the actor who played Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad and became one of Hollywood's most prominent advocates for disability representation, died on October 12, 2026, at his home in Brownsville, Texas. He was 34.
Bolivia Opens Probe Into Evo Morales Over 2009 Santa Cruz Hotel Raid Killings
Bolivia's acting attorney general has opened a preliminary investigation into former president Evo Morales and his ex-vice president over the 2009 police raid on Santa Cruz's Hotel Las Américas that left three Europeans dead and two tortured — a case already condemned by a regional human rights court.
UN Rights Council Vote Set to Hand Burundi Another Seat Despite Abuses, HRW Warns
Human Rights Watch says Burundi is set to win re-election to the UN Human Rights Council on October 12 with no competition, as all 15 candidates for the 47-member body run unopposed — effectively guaranteeing seats for three years starting January 1, 2027.
Deadly airstrike on Sudan-Egypt border gold mine kills at least 13, reigniting gold-war fears
At least 13 artisanal gold miners were killed and 28 wounded in a Saturday airstrike on a mine in the Sudan-Egypt-Libya border triangle. A Sudanese rights group puts the toll at 72 and blames Egypt, spotlighting gold's deadly role in Sudan's war.
Mass Detentions Rock Delhi as Anti-Election-Chief Protests Escalate Into Political Showdown
Delhi police detained more than 7,000 people as the youth-led Cockroach Janata Party's protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar escalated, drawing Rahul Gandhi into the fray, prompting UN rights-office concerns, and landing a Supreme Court hearing on Sunday.
Mexican journalist Hamurabi Huesca Manzano shot dead in Oaxaca, ninth media worker killed in 2026
Hamurabi Huesca Manzano, owner of the news website Pinotepa Comunica, was shot dead in Oaxaca state on Friday. The rights group Article 19 says he is the ninth journalist killed in Mexico this year, underscoring the country's grim record as one of the most dangerous places for the press.
US Kills Four in 71st Strike on Suspected Drug Boat in the Caribbean as Death Toll Tops 235
US Southern Command said it destroyed a go-fast vessel on a known narco-trafficking route in the Caribbean on Oct 4, killing four. The strike is the 71st in the Trump administration's campaign, which rights groups condemn as unlawful extrajudicial killings.
Greece puts two rights defenders on trial: what the Rhodes case means for Europe
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say the trial of Panayote Dimitras and Tommy Olsen in Rhodes on October 6 is a politically motivated prosecution of legitimate human-rights work. If convicted, the two men face up to 20 years in prison.
Philippines Rejects China's Claim to Waters Off Batanes as Research-Vessel Row Escalates
Manila 'firmly and strongly rejected' Beijing's claim of sovereign rights over waters off Batanes after the Philippine Coast Guard drove away the Chinese research vessel Jia Hai Ke 7, detected 37 nautical miles from Itbayat inside the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.