Gaza: Israeli Aid Obstruction Inflaming Polio Outbreak
Click to expand Image Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive walk next to sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis in Gaza, July 4, 2024. © 2024...
View ArticleKiller Robots: New UN Report Urges Treaty by 2026
Click to expand Image United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses a press conference outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on April 19, 2022. © John...
View ArticlePhilippine Censors Ban Film on Enforced Disappearances
Click to expand Image Edita Burgos (R) holds a portrait of her missing son, Jonas Burgos, while posing with her younger son JL Burgos, who directed the film “Alipato at Muog," a documentary about...
View ArticleBangladesh: Back UN Investigation into Grave Abuses
Click to expand Image Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, right, takes the oath of office as the head of Bangladesh's interim government in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 8, 2024. © 2024 Rajib Dhar/AP Photo...
View ArticleUN Report Details Sri Lanka’s Dire Rights Situation
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan police disperse anti-government protesters with tear gas and water cannons during a protest demanding the resignation of President Rani Wickremesinghe’s government in...
View ArticleCameroon: ‘Disappeared’ Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture
Click to expand Image Ramon Cotta (right), born Yves Kibouy Bershu, and also known as Steve Akam, with his lawyer Hippolyte Tiakouang Meli, on August 20, 2024, in military court in Yaoundé, Cameroon....
View ArticleKazakhstan: Unjustified ‘Financing Terrorism’ Restrictions
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards during an opposition rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan on February 28, 2021. © 2021 RUSLAN PRYANIKOV/AFP via Getty Images Authorities in Kazakhstan are...
View ArticleUkraine Moves to Join ICC
Click to expand Image Ukrainian Parliament during a session in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2024. © 2024 Andrii Nesterenko/AP Photo Ukraine is taking key steps toward becoming a member of the...
View ArticleTaliban’s Relentless Assault on Afghan Women’s Bodies, Autonomy
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl, barred from attending secondary school since 2021, reads a notebook in Afghanistan, March 20, 2024. © 2024 Fariba Akbari/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Last...
View ArticleChina: UN Needs to Address Crimes Against Humanity
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP Photo (New...
View ArticleCambodia: Arrests Target Critics of Regional Development Zone
(Bangkok) – Cambodian authorities have arbitrarily arrested at least 94 people since late July 2024 for publicly criticizing the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV), Human Rights...
View ArticleMexico: Flawed Inquiry on Soldiers’ Alleged Killing of Child
Click to expand Image An undated photograph of Heidi Pérez. © Cristina Pérez (Mexico City) – The Mexican Attorney General’s Office has failed to properly investigate allegations that soldiers shot and...
View ArticleStop Politicizing Education for Lebanon’s Refugee Children
Click to expand Image Chairs are placed on classroom tables at a closed public school in Beirut, Lebanon September 22, 2022. © 2022 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters Ahead of the upcoming school year, local...
View ArticlePrivate Door to Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry
Click to expand Image Activists protest the use of pesticides outside the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 4, 2023. © 2024 Eraldo Peres/AP Photo A few meters from the public door of...
View ArticleSudan: Warring Parties Execute Detainees, Mutilate Bodies
Click to expand Image Still image from a video posted to social media showing Sudanese Armed Forces soldiers setting the bodies of persons they have apparently executed, on fire. © User via X, 2024...
View ArticleEgypt: Spate of Free Speech Prosecutions
Click to expand Image Vehicles pass near banners displaying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the presidential elections, in Cairo, Egypt, on December 10, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Amr Nabil...
View ArticleLebanon: Nationwide Electricity Blackout
Click to expand Image Lebanon's capital, Beirut, in the dark on July 27, 2020, due to widespread electricity blackouts caused by fuel shortages in the midst of a dire economic crisis. © 2020 Patrick...
View ArticleBangladesh: Government Sets up Disappearances Inquiry
Click to expand Image © Private (New York) – Bangladesh's interim government should seek expertise and technical assistance from the United Nations for its new commission of inquiry investigating all...
View ArticleEmpower Communities to Adapt as Pacific Faces Surging Seas
Click to expand Image The island community of Serua Village, Fiji, July 15, 2022. © 2022 Loren Elliot/Reuters As government leaders gather in Tonga this week for the Pacific Islands Forum, United...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s Digital Sex Crime Deepfake Crisis
Click to expand Image South Korean women protest against non-consensual filming and sharing of intimate images on August 4, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea. © 2018 Jean Chung/Getty Images South Korea faces...
View Article