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UN rights office warns of ‘dangerous tipping point’ as abuses surge in Sudan

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In a new report, UN investigators detailed multiple attacks on civilians, healthcare facilities, markets, and schools, as well as ethnically motivated summary executions.“The continued and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects, as...
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UN rights office condemns continuing Israeli military operation in West Bank

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Since the start of the offensive on 21 January, Israeli forces have killed at least 44 Palestinians, including five children and two women, in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas governorates, and four refugee camps...
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Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

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The Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus established in 2024, was tasked with investigating alleged violations since 2020 – when a disputed election saw President Alexander Lukashenko returned...
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European Church of Scientology Engages in Global Religious Freedom Advocacy at IRF Summit 2025

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KINGNEWSWIRE // Washington, D.C. – February 6, 2025 – The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2025 brought together a diverse coalition of religious leaders, human rights advocates, and policymakers to discuss global religious freedom challenges....
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UN rights office urges humane treatment of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees

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“Images of emaciated Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees released as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement have been deeply distressing,” Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement.  He added that...
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Bangladesh protests probe reveals top leaders led brutal repression

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In addition to those killed by the former government’s security and intelligence services alongside Awami League party associates, a report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into...
Africa

COMECE Appeals to EU for Immediate Intervention in Goma, DRC Conflict

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As the European Parliament prepares to vote on a resolution regarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) later this week, His Eminence Mgr. Mariano Crociata, President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences...
Human Rights

Short-range drones: The deadliest threat to civilians in Ukraine

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With increasing reports of these drones striking civilians in cars, on buses and on public streets, UN monitors have raised serious concerns about potential violations of international humanitarian law.According to HRMMU’s latest monthly update...
Europe

Mohamad Alkayali, a Syrian refugee victim of the weaponization of INTERPOL by Saudi Arabia

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A Syrian Refugee Trapped by a Politically Motivated Red Notice In the early hours of December 28, 2024, Mohamad Alkayali, a Syrian refugee who has lived legally in Turkiye since 2014, was arrested by Turkish...
Human Rights

Two mass graves of migrants uncovered in Libya

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Nineteen bodies were discovered in Jakharrah, around 400 km south of the coastal city of Benghazi, while at least 30 more were found in a mass grave in the Alkufra desert in the...
Human Rights

‘We all have someone missing’: Families of the thousands of Syrians ‘disappeared’ by Assad regime share stories of loss

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It has been two months since Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria, was forced to flee the country, as rebel forces – now installed as the interim government – advanced on Damascus,...
Human Rights

Sudan: Civilian death toll triples in one week amid escalating hostilities

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This figure represents a threefold increase from the previous week, when at least 89 civilians lost their lives amid the ongoing hostilities.The crisis is compounded by intensifying violence in South Kordofan and Blue...
Human Rights

International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions move

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The court was established by the Rome Statute, negotiated within the UN – but it is a fully independent court set up to try the gravest crimes, including crimes against humanity. Read our...
Human Rights

DR Congo: Rights chief warns crisis could worsen, without international action

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Since 26 January, nearly 3,000 people have been killed and 2,880 injured in attacks by the M23 and their allies “with heavy weapons used in populated areas, and intense fighting against the armed...
Council of Europe

Council of Europe in a divided position on human rights

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The permanent representatives in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Wednesday decided to move ahead on a review process collecting another opinion of a controversial draft text for a new additional...
Human Rights

‘She had a syringe, razor blade, and bandages’: Surviving genital mutilation

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Zeinaba Mahr Aouad, a 24-year-old woman from Djibouti, remembers the day when, as a ten-year-old, an unexpected visitor came to her house: “She had a syringe, a razor blade and bandages.”The woman was...
Human Rights

Syria: Assad’s armed forces must face accountability, says rights probe

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The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria’s latest report follows the lightning operation led by mainly Hayat-Tahrir al-Sham fighters that toppled President Bashar al-Assad last December, ending the 13-year war that decimated the...
Human Rights

Human rights situation in Haiti remains ‘very alarming’, UN report finds

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Released on Tuesday, the new report highlights that at least 5,626 people have been killed and more than 2,213 injured in the past year, due to the armed gangs who control much of...
Human Rights

Stories from the UN Archive: Marian Anderson broke barriers with music and diplomacy

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Battling extensive racial prejudice, she broke many barriers, including as the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera.UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld hailed her contributions to art and diplomacy, which live on...
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Haiti: ‘I was deported to a country I never lived in’

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MireillePregnant and exhausted and clutching a small bag with all that was left of her belongings, Mireille* stood under the relentless Haitian sun, not sure what to do next.She had just been deported...
Europe

Peaceful Iranians arrested in Turkey for publicly manifesting their religious beliefs

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On 5 January 2025, police officers in Karaman (Turkey) raided the home of an Iranian couple looking for an opportunity to apply for asylum in an EU country and belonging to the Ahmadi Religion...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Deadly virus outbreak in Uganda, $500 million human rights appeal, Thailand’s lèse-majesté laws in spotlight

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Health authorities in Kampala confirmed that one patient has died – a nurse who had sought treatment at various other medical facilities after developing fever-like symptoms.In response to the outbreak of the often...
Human Rights

Sudan: UN rights chief ‘alarmed’ by summary executions, attacks on civilians

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Government forces and a rival military – the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – have been battling for control of the country since April 2023 in what Mr. Türk called a “senseless war”, which...
Council of Europe

UN and Civil Society Warn the Council of Europe

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Both the United Nations and a coalition of Civil Society organizations and human rights bodies have issued Open letters to the Council of Europe prior to the Committee of Ministers meeting on the 5th...
Human Rights

‘We have a duty to stand against intolerance’: UN human rights chief

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Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the essence of commemorations was to acknowledge the past but they “must also examine the present and look to...
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