Category: Human Rights

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 […]

The EU announced today emergency humanitarian funding of €1.2 million for Uganda, to support the country in its response to the current Sudan (Ebola) virus outbreak. With this funding, our humanitarian partner the World Health Organisation (WHO) will be able to address critical needs related to coordination, surveillance, infection prevention and control case management, operational […]

Recent detentions of German nationals by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have sparked outrage and confusion. Although citizens of the European Union, including Germany, are permitted to enter the U.S. visa-free for up to 90 days, several German nationals have found themselves trapped in a complex and opaque immigration system, including Green Card holders […]

We, the undersigned organisations, are dismayed by the intensified state crackdown on lawyers in Iran simply for defending human rights and respect for the rule of law. The systematic targeting of lawyers and human rights defenders by the state in Iran shows no signs of stopping, with escalated attacks in January and February 2025. On 3 February […]