Category: Human Rights

More than 700,000 of them fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after armed attacks by a militant group against Myanmar security forces sparked a brutal military crackdown that began on 25 August 2017. They joined thousands of others who had escaped earlier waves of violence and discrimination now living in refugee camps just across the border in […]

(New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.  On August 20, 2023, the Ecuadorian people voted to halt all current and future oil drilling in the Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini (ITT) […]

RIYADH — Human rights organizations have condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of Jalal Labbad, a member of the Shi’a minority, for crimes allegedly committed when he was a minor. Labbad was executed on August 21, despite international legal prohibitions against the death penalty for juvenile offenders. Amnesty International described the execution as “deplorable,” citing violations of […]

Recent attacks have been particularly devastating in the Az Zaytoun neighbourhood, where airstrikes, artillery shelling and gunfire are continuous and intense, causing a high number of civilian casualties and the large-scale destruction of residential buildings and public facilities, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement. Since 8 […]

On August 15, while United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were en route to their Alaska meeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in Kherson, southern Ukraine. Tetiana had died two days earlier in an artillery strike. Almost a year ago, Nataliia buried her father, Petro, 67. A Russian drone […]

GENEVA — A group of United Nations special rapporteurs has raised alarm over escalating threats against journalists affiliated with London-based Iran International, citing a pattern of transnational repression and intimidation. In a statement released Thursday, the experts detailed “credible threats” to the safety of 45 journalists and staff members, along with 315 of their relatives […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has voiced serious concern over the recent abduction and detention of media professionals in Ethiopia, underscoring a deteriorating climate for press freedom in the country. In a statement issued Wednesday, CPJ reported the abduction of newspaper editor Yonas Amare by masked individuals in military attire, and the arrests of […]

“It is time to abolish human exploitation once and for all and to recognise the equal and unconditional dignity of each and every individual,” Ms. Azoulay said. The Day is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. Details from Ark of Return, the permanent memorial at UN Headquarters […]

(Geneva) – Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year since President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took office with promises of reform, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandates for the UN to collect and analyze evidence of […]

Multiple strikes overnight into Friday were reported in the Jabalya Al Balad and An Nazla neighbourhoods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest update. As a result, around 900 people reportedly fled towards the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and western Gaza City. Safe passage, more aid The UN and […]