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A summit devoted to peace and shared prosperity in Southeast Asia should not ignore escalating abuses targeting political activists and dissidents across international borders. When leaders of Francophonie countries gather in Phnom Penh on November 15 and 16, French President Emmanuel Macron should press the governments of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand to end transnational repression.

Israeli authorities on November 13, 2026, imposed an international travel ban on Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al-Haq, a leading Palestinian human rights organization in the occupied West Bank.

On November 12, Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced that his government intends to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence, also known as “Istanbul Convention."

A draft law that passed in its first reading by the French Senate on October 27, 2026, contains measures that would severely undermine the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, and are incompatible with France’s human rights treaty obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. The so-called “vandals pay” bill is now pending review by the National Assembly.

Indonesian authorities should impartially investigate allegations that military and police officers on November 10, 2026, responded to youth protests with excessive force and may have deliberately provoked violence.

A brutal attack on trans women sex workers in Buenos Aires has sparked outrage in Argentina, raising questions about hate-motivated violence and the responsibility of public officials to protect groups vulnerable to discrimination.

CSO Joint letter to UN Permanent Representatives calling them to vote to continue to protect all people from unlawful killings! The UN General Assembly's resolution on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Defend the right to life of every person: the resolution on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, eighty-first session of the General Assembly!

We are writing ahead of the 16 November 2026 Foreign Affairs Council, during which you will address the situation in Syria, to encourage you to ensure that the EU will tie its future engagement with Syria to concrete and durable human rights progress.

The failure of states to take decisive action on autonomous weapons next week at the Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) would leave civilians dangerously exposed to rapidly advancing military technologies.