Category: Human Rights

(Beirut) – After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women’s and girls’ rights to equality before the law and puts them at risk of other abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Persistent pressure and advocacy by women’s rights groups partly reduced the […]

“With 21 civilians reported killed, 7 March was one of the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine so far this year,” UN mission chief Danielle Bell said Russian’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 has killed thousands and left millions displaced by the ongoing war. The UN monitoring mission said all the civilian deaths and 79 […]

“Over 63,000 people now have crossed into the country, Burundi, fleeing atrocities, deadly conflict in parts of eastern DR Congo,” said Faith Kasina, UNHCR Regional Spokesperson for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes. Amid the largest influx of refugees Burundi has seen in decades because of the hostilities in eastern DRC’s mineral-rich region, […]

UNICEF has issued a stark warning regarding the severe consequences of Israel’s halt on aid deliveries to Gaza, highlighting the catastrophic impact on the region’s most vulnerable residents, particularly infants and children. The organization emphasized that although it has been providing crucial resources such as food, water, and medical supplies, these efforts are insufficient to […]

On Thursday, US Federal Judge Beryl Howell ruled to reinstate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Gwynne Wilcox, condemning President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her from her position as unlawful. The ruling came after Wilcox filed a lawsuit claiming her removal violated the National Labor Relations Act, which restricts removal of board members to […]

Margaret Satterthwaite, a UN human rights expert specializing in judicial independence, has sharply condemned actions taken against US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials involved in investigations of former President Donald Trump. These actions, she claims, constitute political retaliation and represent a disturbing trend of undermining independent justice professionals. Satterthwaite specifically denounced the reassignment, transfer, or […]

A new report from the women’s rights NGO Equality Now raises urgent alarms about the global decline in women’s rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and democratic freedoms. Despite notable progress in legal equality, the organization highlights an “alarming rollback” in these areas 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The report […]

Nine women journalists in Azerbaijan are marking International Women’s Day behind bars or under house arrest amid the government’s relentless crackdown on critics. Women journalists and civic activists who speak truth to power face unique risks in Azerbaijan’s patriarchal society. The authorities have a long record of subjecting them to gender-based smear campaigns and trolling in an […]

The Director-General, Maciej Popowski, has concluded a strategic weeklong trip to 4 Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, reinforcing the European Union’s commitment to humanitarian cooperation and disaster management in the region. Building on the outcomes of the First EU-GCC meeting of heads of state and government in October 2024, the visit to Kuwait, the Kingdom […]

Alaa Abdel Fattah, the Egyptian-British activist imprisoned in Egypt, has begun a hunger strike in solidarity with his mother, Laila Soueif, who has been on her own hunger strike for over five months. The 41-year-old activist started refusing food on March 1, 2025, following the news of his mother’s hospitalization in London, where she has […]