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The United Nations reported on Friday that the cost of key foods increased in July as a result of searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical instability, which have affected global energy prices amid persistent hunger risks in multiple countries. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Food Price Index (FPI) averaged 131.1 points [...]

The UN on Tuesday warned that strikes on civilian infrastructure, including on active classrooms and school buildings, are endangering residents in Gaza and putting humanitarian efforts to educate children under immense pressure. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), military attacks and strikes are persisting across Gaza, including on classroom [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday reported that in the five years since the Taliban’s resurgence, the group has fostered a hostile environment and spurred one of the world’s worst human rights crises. HRW called on governments around the world to take decisive action as opposed to passively providing condolences, stating that the international response [...]

Five UN specialized agencies reported on Tuesday that global hunger rates declined for the third consecutive year in 2025, but the distribution of these improvements remained uneven across regions, and also noted the persistence of significant impediments to progress due to energy shocks and armed conflicts. The UN agencies released a report entitled “The State [...]

Human Rights Watch on Friday warned of the dangerously deteriorating economic state in Afghanistan. Millions of citizens are at risk of severe hunger due to a sharp decline in international aid and restrictive Taliban policies that target women and hinder humanitarian access. Statistics from the United Nations indicate that 46 percent of Afghanistan’s citizens will [...]

The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) on Friday released a statement defending the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the announcement of a campaign by the United States Department of State that seeks to paralyze and ultimately dissolve the Court. The network reiterated that the ICC, created by the 2002 Rome Statute, is an independent [...]

In mid-June, 17-year-old Shakiba* was arrested by the Taliban’s morality police (the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) along with dozens of other women. Her alleged crime was “improper hijab.” Shakiba was fully covered in a chadar namaz—a full-body prayer veil—but she was wearing a little eye makeup, and that was [...]

Two US-based advocacy groups sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, alleging that sanctions imposed by Trump on members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN impede the organizations’ ability to engage in Palestinian-related human rights advocacy and therefore violate their First Amendment rights. The sanctions in question stem from a 2025 Executive [...]

The US will launch a diplomatic campaign aimed at dismantling the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote that the US would work alongside allied governments to take the Court apart “brick by brick, if necessary,” using all tools at the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that German authorities on June 20 deported Tajik opposition activist Asadullo Boboev and his adult son, Muhammad, to Dushanbe, despite warnings that Boboev faced detention and mistreatment on return. HRW Europe and Central Asia director Hugh Williamson stated: Germany is failing to uphold its international obligations to protect those [...]