The recent sentencing of British national Mia O’Brien in Dubai has sparked global attention—not for its controversy, but for the sobering reminder it offers about the consequences of crossing legal boundaries abroad. Caught in possession of 50 grams of cocaine, O’Brien was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment under the UAE’s strict drug laws. The […]
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The measures announced on Thursday target Al-Haq group, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, in relation to their support of the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, following other sanctions imposed by the US Government in June on renowned […]
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DUBLIN — President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina were honoured at the National Concert Hall on Friday evening during Against All Certainty: A Celebration of Michael D. Higgins, a cultural tribute marking the release of his debut spoken-word album. The event featured live recitations of the President’s poems, including The Death of Mary […]
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LAGOS — Amnesty International has reaffirmed that Shell remains responsible for decades of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, despite the company’s divestment from its subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). The statement follows a letter from seven UN Human Rights Rapporteurs urging Shell and other oil firms to uphold their obligations to affected communities. […]
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📍 Lagos, 6 September 2025 — Nigeria’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery has exported its first shipment of petrol to the United States, marking a historic milestone for Africa’s largest oil processing facility. The consignment, totaling approximately 300,000 barrels of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), departed from the refinery’s Lekki jetty on 26 August aboard the vessel Gemini […]
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“When women are missing, democracy is incomplete,” said Kirsi Madi, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director with the UN gender equality agency, UN Women, responding to the latest analysis. Ms. Madi emphasised that the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the media needs to be recognised as a key issue, so that democratic standards are not eroded for future generations. […]
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📍 South Boston, Virginia, 5 September 2025 — Hitachi Energy, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., has unveiled a landmark $1 billion investment to expand production of critical electrical grid components across the United States. The initiative includes $457 million dedicated to building a large power transformer facility in South Boston, Virginia—the largest of its kind […]
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“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.” The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
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The dramatic liquidity crisis currently impacting the UN and its global partners has already prevented a high-level human rights probe into the DRC emergency created in February from getting underway. According to testimonies gathered by OHCHR investigators into widespread violence in DRC’s North and South Kivu since January, members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel paramilitary group […]
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“Air quality respects no boundaries,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “The smoke and the pollution that issues from the wildfires in this record-breaking season in the Iberian Peninsula has been detected over Western Europe already [and]…can travel basically throughout the rest of the European continent.” Presenting the latest WMO Air […]
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