Category: Human Rights

In neighbouring Chad, children make up 61 per cent of the 860,000 Sudanese refugees and a staggering 68 per cent of the 274,000 Chadian returnees – that’s over 700,000 young lives uprooted by violence. Chad, already one of the world’s poorest countries, has the fourth-highest child mortality rate in the world, despite significant progress in […]

(Beirut) – The recent convictions of 24 defendants in the United Arab Emirates to life imprisonment were based on a fundamentally unfair mass trial, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 26, the Criminal Chamber of the UAE’s Federal Supreme Court overturned a prior judgment to dismiss the cases against 24 defendants, instead reconvicting and sentencing the defendants […]

“Definitely, people get shot,” said Gaza-based medic Dr. Luca Pigozzi, WHO Emergency Medical Team Coordinator. “They are victim of blast injuries as well and bodily injuries.” The WHO official’s comments follow reports of another mass casualty incident on Thursday, this time involving a strike on a market in the central city of Deir al Balah. More […]

“We are not meeting the minimum requirement to prevent women from being silenced, and support their participation and leadership in…building peace,” Mr. Türk said. 25 years ago, the UN Security Council passed a resolution which affirmed the vital role that women play in preventing and resolving conflict and emphasized the importance of ending impunity for sexual […]

June 26, 2025 – Damascus, Syria — On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International has called on Syria’s new governing authorities to urgently provide medical, psychological, and legal assistance to survivors of torture under the former regime. In a statement issued Thursday, Amnesty emphasized the long-lasting trauma endured by those […]

(İstanbul, June 26, 2025) – An Istanbul court’s decision on June 19, 2025, to allow the detention of a leading defense lawyer for the jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appears to be in reprisal for his legal representation of his client, Human Rights Watch and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project said today. Turkish authorities […]

“From that day on, our home became a travel bag and our path became that of displacement … My childhood was filled with fear and anxiety and people I was deprived of,” she said, speaking via videoconference from Syria.   Sila, now 17, described her experiences during the Syrian Civil War to a meeting of […]

Between 2015 and 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre documented over 6,400 cases of human rights defenders facing attacks for speaking out against business-related harms—an average of nearly two incidents per day over the past decade. The findings, published in the Centre’s latest review titled Defending Rights for a Just Economy, highlight a […]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has strongly condemned the repeated use of lethal force by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinians attempting to access food aid in Gaza, describing the killings as “senseless” and “unlawful.” In a statement released Wednesday, the OHCHR highlighted several recent incidents in which […]

Today, she’s a qualified refugee and human rights lawyer in New Zealand – but on Tuesday she recalled the ordeal of becoming displaced aged 14 and described the harrowing limbo that followed. Invisible and alone “I grew up invisible to the world,” she said of her life in Afghanistan. “Without rights, opportunities, or safety.” That […]