The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned  Monday that tens of thousands of people who fled violence in Ethiopia and sought refuge in Kenya are experiencing acute food shortages alongside a lack of access to clean water and shelters. Based on a new assessment conducted in collaboration with the Kenyan government, the county government of [...]

The UN on Monday issued a warning in conjunction with a climate report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicating that extreme temperatures and weather events spurred from climate change will be exacerbated by this years El Niño and continue well into January and February of the next year. WMO’s report, titled the State of [...]

Amnesty International urged the governments of Haiti and El Salvador on Monday to ensure that Salvadoran military operations in Haiti comply with international human rights law. The concerns emerged after the UN confirmed that most Salvadoran troops recently deployed there operate outside the UN-authorized Gang Suppression Force (GSF). In a note on November 2, UN [...]

Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky introduced eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday, charging that he violated constitutional and statutory limits on military action, including by directing unauthorized hostilities against Iran. Three articles allege violations of the War Powers Resolution arising from the Iran conflict. They accuse Hegseth of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to resume construction on the border wall in the Big Bend region of Texas, including within Big Bend National Park. In a four-page, unsigned opinion, the Court cited §102(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which “gives the Department [...]

Several UN experts, including six special rapporteurs and members of Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, on Monday called on the government of Sri Lanka to revise the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act (PSTA) to ensure the bill is consistent with international human rights law. The experts stated: [...]

Amnesty International on Monday welcomed the Red Line (Rode Lijn) March in Amsterdam which took place on Sunday and saw over 200,000 people take to the streets to urge the Dutch government to strengthen its response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza and its continued occupation of Palestinian territory. Commenting on the turnout at the [...]

Sudanese military authorities on Sunday detained Ahmed Haroun, a former senior government official wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur. Haroun’s National Congress Party confirmed his detention in a statement Sunday, demanding his release and saying authorities had provided no justification. Accounts differed over [...]

Once again this year, the specter of state-sponsored murder—otherwise known as judicial execution—stains the American Jewish community’s commemoration of Kristallnacht. The German word for the “Night of Broken Glass,” Kristallnacht was an infamous pogrom that the governing Nazis, Hitler Youth and German civilians perpetrated against the Jews across Germany eighty-eight years ago, on November 9–10, [...]