INTERNATIONAL The Palestinian Authority is responsible for the torture and ill-treatment of civilians, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) determined, after the completion of hearings investigating the torture. According to the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, the “Committee was seriously concerned about the causalities caused by the excessive[…]
INTERNATIONAL Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations Envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years, Reuters reports. “This truce extension includes a commitment from the parties[…]
United Nations (UN) human rights experts on Thursday urged Israel to immediately release Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Manasra, 20, who was detained at 14 years old and has been suffering serious mental health conditions. “Ahmed’s imprisonment for almost six years has deprived him of childhood, family environment, protection, and all the rights[…]
INTERNATIONAL Syria Relief, the UK’s leading Syria-focused NGO and its parent charity Action For Humanity, on Saturday condemned the UN failure to renew the Syria cross border resolution. It called for global powers to put politics second and people first. The resolution gives a UN mandate for the only remaining[…]
INTERNATIONAL Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is finally in China and travelling to Xinjiang nearly four years after first announcing her intention to visit the country amid concerns of serious human rights abuses in the northwestern region. Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a predominantly[…]
INTERNATIONAL United Nations human rights experts urged the international community on Monday to resume funding for six prominent Palestinian civil society groups designated by Israel as terrorist organisations last year. In October, Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz labelled the six Palestinian NGOs – Addameer; Al-Haq; the Union of Agricultural Work Committees; the Bisan Centre for Research and[…]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced the start of providing needed aid and medical intervention to around 18,000 Yemeni children suffering illnesses and malnutrition, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, WHO said the aid intervention, which is carried out in eight hospitals over a period of nine months, is implemented[…]
INTERNATIONAL G7 foreign ministers have said “all available evidence clearly points to Iran” being behind a drone attack on July 29 against an Israel-linked tanker that killed a former British soldier and Romanian national. “This was a deliberate and targeted attack, and a clear violation of international law … There[…]
A top UN rights expert has called for Israeli settlements to be classified as war crimes, urging the international community to demand accountability for a practice it has long deemed illegal. Presenting his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michael Lynk, the United Nations special rapporteur[…]
Aid workers are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe in parts of Syria if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing the last humanitarian border crossing to remain open. There had been a total of four border crossings approved in 2014 that allowed humanitarian aid to enter[…]
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