As armed conflicts proliferate around the globe, World Mental Health Day is a reminder that psychological harms of armed conflict can have lasting effects on civilians' mental health. Accessible, inclusive mental health care can help create the conditions for recovery, inclusion, and hope.

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, a reminder that Saudi Arabia continues using the death penalty, executing record numbers of people including migrants convicted of nonlethal drug offenses, men convicted of alleged crimes as children, and gov't critics.

The Trump administration’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court is an unprecedented assault on global justice and the rule of law. By attacking the ICC, the US government is threatening justice for victims of abuses from Palestine to Ukraine, Myanmar, and Sudan. Read more:

👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Navi Pillay, an activist, human rights investigator, and international judge, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. From Rwanda to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navi Pillay has sought justice for the world’s worst crimes.

The Thai government’s move to extradite respected Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong is deeply troubling. Thailand should not succumb to pressure from Beijing to extradite Bai based on trumped up charges. Read more (from July):

The US should stop deporting asylum seekers and refugees to third countries that lack the capacity to provide full and fair asylum procedures, and these countries should refuse to receive people under these conditions. 🎨: Illustrations by John R Holmes.

Many, if not most, have been left with no practical option but to return to their home countries regardless of the harm they face there.

In a new report, HRW documents that US authorities denied the more than 500 people transferred to third countries a meaningful chance to contest their removals or to articulate their fears of being removed to these countries.

"We want people to know that trans people are serving the community," says Sam Burnett of the Amarillo Area Transgender Advocacy Group, which turned settlement money into food for thousands in Texas as federal food assistance was halted. As anti-trans policies escalate, Sam is staying to fight.

Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Indian authorities need to release all detained for peacefully protesting, stop suspending internet services, and investigate complaints of police abuse.

All civilians deserve protection from atrocities and abuses and are entitled to protection, dignity, and justice.

In Gaza, Israeli forces have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing. Israeli forces killed, maimed, starved and forcibly displaced Palestinians, destroying their homes, schools, and infrastructure at an unprecedented scale.