Human Rights
‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR Korea
When they eventually did, her mother said to her, “If you are going to die anyway, better to be shot crossing the two-mile border than starve here.”Shortly thereafter they fled…
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Press Remarks by Commissioner Lahbib in Spain on Preparations for the Wildfire Season
European Commission Speech Madrid, 26 May 2025 Thank you for your warm welcome and for the fascinating meeting with the 43rd Air Forces Group and the demonstration of the Canadair…
United Nations
World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, urged Member States to remain focused on shared goals even amid global instability.“We are here to serve not our own interests,…
Human Rights
World News in Brief: Terror-crime link alarm, child detention in Australia, judiciary in Maldives, Protection of Civilians Week
In recent years, criminal and terrorist groups have seized “every” opportunity afforded by growing instability to “entrench, expand, and escalate,” said Ghada Waly, in her opening remarks to the Commission…
United Nations
Gaza: Israel ‘approaches UN’ to resume limited aid deliveries, says aid agency
“We have been approached by Israeli authorities to resume limited aid delivery, and we are in discussions with them now on how this would take place given the conditions on…
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Donald Trump, Anti -Semitism, Harvard University and civil rights
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zibrat published in 2018 a book entitled How democracies die. In it, it is studied as democracies do not fall by the force of revolutions, but…
Portraits In Faith
Portraits in Faith: Oren Lyons and the Sacred Work of Justice
“Portraits in Faith” is a section dedicated to highlighting the lives and legacies of individuals who champion interfaith dialogue, religious freedom, and global peace. In the quiet forests of upstate…
United Nations
UN humanitarian chief demands resumption of aid in Gaza
No aid has entered the enclave since Israel implemented a ban on 2 March and the entire population, more than two million people, is at risk of famine.“As we demonstrated…
Europe
Kosovo- Statement by the Spokesperson on the latest developments
EU Warns of Escalating Tensions After Kosovo’s Public Service Closures The European Union has issued a sharp rebuke of Kosovo’s recent police operations targeting public service providers in the north…
Human Rights
UN’s Türk criticises ‘draconian’ decree limiting dissent in Mali
Volker Türk on Friday called the decree “draconian” and urged Mali’s Transitional President, General Assimi Goïta, to reverse the decree issued earlier this week.Signed on 13 May, the decree dissolves…