Category: Human Rights

As Afghanistan’s new school year commences, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has once again called on the Taliban to lift its ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education. This restriction, in place since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, has left millions of Afghan girls without access to education and is threatening […]

Government officials, local authorities, health professionals, and civil society are gathering today at the second global conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia. As multilateralism is under threat, this convening is a crucial opportunity for policymakers to make progress on tackling air pollution globally. Organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the government […]

Today, in a pivotal moment for Syria’s transition, the European Union hosted the ninth edition of the Brussels Conference “Standing with Syria: meeting the needs for a successful transition.”  Amid renewed hope and significant challenges after the fall of the Assad regime, the EU alongside EU Member States, regional and international partners, as well as, […]

There have been a staggering 1,614 recorded attacks on Ukrainian schools up to the end of last year says the report from the UN human rights office OHCHR – part of a legacy of death, injury, disability and family separation. Children’s educational attainment level has plummeted during the unrelenting hostilities, “diminishing their future educational path […]

Spokespersons for UNICEF and UNHCR in Geneva warned that the liquidity crunch has jeopardized lifesaving work, including progress in reducing child mortality, which has fallen by 60 per cent since 1990.   By slashing severe acute malnutrition by one-third since 2000, UNICEF’s efforts have kept 55 million children alive, through simple interventions, it insisted. “There are […]

A federal court has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive Social Security records after ruling that such access violated privacy laws. The decision, handed down by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Thursday, was based on concerns raised by two national labor groups and an […]

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has concluded that Russia’s actions in Ukraine have led to significant violations of children’s rights. Between February 2022 and December 2024, the OHCHR documented 669 child deaths and 1,883 injuries, with explosive weapons causing the majority of these casualties. These weapons have not […]

The Trump administration has jeopardized efforts to find thousands of Ukrainian children illegally deported to Russia and Belarus, and in doing so, may have compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials. After the US State Department funded Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab in 2022 to work on Ukraine, the lab exposed the scope of Russian […]

Amnesty International and other human rights groups globally are urgently calling for the release and protection of Maria Ponomarenko, a journalist and anti-war activist imprisoned in Russia, after two letters from her revealed severe mental distress and suicidal tendencies. The letters, obtained by Russian media outlet RusNews, show Ponomarenko’s escalating suffering in prison, where she […]

In response to growing concerns over national security, China has called for protections for its students in the United States after a U.S. congressional panel demanded detailed information from top universities about their Chinese student populations. The letter, sent by John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, targeted six […]