Category: Human Rights

Since its establishment in 1991, one of the most reliable messengers about life for Palestinian children under Israeli occupation had been a group called Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP). But on April 7 the group ended its operations due to what it said were “challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations.” […]

2 repatriation flights chartered directly by the European Commission have just landed in Warsaw, Poland, bringing back 303 European citizens that were stranded in the Middle East.  This adds to the more than 70 flights coordinated by the EU’s Emergency Response Coordination Centre. Over 8,000 European citizens are home today thanks to the EU mobilisation, bringing […]

In Belgium, a powerful explosion on Monday outside a historic synagogue in Liege caused significant damage. Three synagogues across Canada were attacked in separate shootings last week. In the United States, an attacker was shot dead after crashing their truck into a synagogue and its preschool in Michigan on Thursday. He had reportedly lost family […]

On the night of March 29, gunmen attacked the Angwan Rukuba community in Nigeria’s Plateau state, killing over 28 people and injuring many others, according to the state governor. The attack, which targeted a densely populated area, highlights persistent patterns of violence in northern Nigeria, where killings, kidnappings, and limited state protection leave communities extremely vulnerable. According […]

In light of the escalating situation in the Middle East and the evolving humanitarian situation in Lebanon, the EU has mobilised emergency humanitarian aid consisting of food and medical kits, shelter materials, recreation kits and winter clothing kits, to meet the urgent, rising humanitarian needs in Lebanon. Due to ongoing hostilities, around 680,000+ people have […]

Presenting his final report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the outgoing Special Rapporteur who examines conditions in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, urged governments to renew efforts to protect civilians and support the country’s embattled population. “The current geopolitical climate is less than conducive to advancing human rights in Myanmar and beyond,” he said. […]

Emboldened by President Donald Trump’s abusive mass deportation agenda and Congress recently approving a supersized budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun purchasing warehouses across the country to detain people in its custody. One of the most alarming developments of this initiative is unfolding in Surprise, Arizona, where ICE […]

The 5th evacuation flight from the Middle East, chartered and fully funded by the European Commission landed yesterday in Bucharest, Romania. The flight enabled the safe repatriation of 134 European citizens, following a request from the Romanian authorities.  Departing from Oman, the flight transported 96 Romanian nationals and 38 citizens from other European countries, who […]

As conflict and instability rage, “millions of Muslims around the world carry that pain with them,” said António Guterres marking the International Day to Combat Islamophobia: “Let us recommit to equality, human rights and dignity of every person, everywhere.” The Secretary-General warned that for far too many Muslims living as minorities, their daily lives face being shaped […]

The new campaign of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to recruit children as young as 12 for patrols and security checkpoints has been widely condemned. Military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when children are under 15. The world has come a long way in just a […]