We are pleased to share the latest edition of the IHR Legal newsletter.

Discover the latest developments in international and regional human rights protection systems. This edition examines, among other issues, the report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documenting the systematic trafficking of children by at least 26 gangs in Haiti and warning of an escalating human rights crisis; the resolution of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights calling for the protection of human rights, electoral integrity, and digital freedoms ahead of the several elections scheduled across Africa in 2026; the thematic report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression on hate speech under the American Convention on Human Rights; and the advisory opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on States’ obligations to prevent illicit arms trafficking and related human rights violations.

The newsletter also examines key case-law and decisions from international and regional human rights bodies, including the views of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women finding Cambodia responsible for human rights violations against a child rape victim in a context of systemic gender and disability discrimination; the judgment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a case against Tanzania concerning the absence of State mechanisms to review presidential election results; and the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in D.M. v. Sweden, which found that Sweden had failed to properly assess the real risk of ill-treatment faced by an Afghan national subject to deportation. Stay informed and up to date on the issues shaping the global human rights agenda.