Trade: Transparency meeting reveals deep divides on WTO reform (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The facilitators overseeing the controversial World Trade Organization reform tracks - namely, foundational issues, decision-making, "level playing field" (LPF) issues, and development - have apparently issued lengthy oral reports raising sharp concerns over form and substance.

Afghanistan: Five years on, Taliban policies are reshaping Afghan society (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the de facto authorities have entrenched an ideological governance system that permeates all aspects of Afghan life, imposing sweeping decrees that severely curtail rights and freedoms, especially for women, girls, boys, gender-diverse people and minority communities.

UN: Mexico failing to protect women human rights defenders, say experts (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
United Nations human rights experts have called on Mexico to fulfill its international obligations to protect human rights defenders, warning that women searching for disappeared persons continue to face extreme and often deadly violence, and are often themselves subjected to enforced disappearance or killed.