Category: Human Rights

Unveiled on Wednesday, it creates new opportunities for work, education and family reunification, while strengthening migration governance and placing migration at the heart of stability and economic development. It is being led by Iraq’s ministry for migration and the displaced, with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Government of the […]

Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against migrants and asylum seekers. The European Union and Spain, bilaterally, have continued to outsource migration management to Mauritania, despite its rights violations. Recent steps by the Mauritanian government may improve protection for migrants and their rights. These should continue, and the […]

GENEVA — United Nations human rights experts have issued a strong condemnation of what they describe as intensifying repression against the Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, urging authorities to cease targeting Indigenous and religious minorities under vague security laws. In a statement released Monday, the experts highlighted systemic harassment and criminalization of Khmer Krom rights […]

OHCHR Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said condemnation of the two strikes by Israeli forces on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis now needs to be channelled into a demand for accountability and justice for all those killed. At least 20 died, including four health workers and five journalists, later named as Ahed Abu Aziz, Hussam al-Masri, […]

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 […]