The UN and its partners on Monday launched a Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan as well as a Regional Refugee Response Plan to aid Sudan amid its humanitarian crisis. Approximately 30.4 million people are to be assisted by the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, and 4.8 million people will be aided by the Regional Refugee [...]
Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday that successive governments in Guatemala have failed to meet their obligations to girls facing forced pregnancies due to sexual violence. The right’s organization’s new 85-page report focused on several obligations, including access to abortion, healthcare, education, financial support, and justice. HRW interviewed 31 representatives of civil society organizations, 41 government [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner published a report on Friday detailing North Korea’s ongoing and worsening human rights crisis. The report, which consists of numerous interviews with North Korean escapees and former officials and detailed accounts of human rights crises developed from consultations with human rights organizations, documents the abuses of human rights [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed authorities to begin the immediate enforcement of a law banning the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees on Tuesday. The UNRWA law was passed by the Knesset with broad support, and prohibits the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating in Israel and bars Israeli [...]
The former Prime Minister of Mauritius was released on bail Sunday after being charged with money laundering by the Mauritius Financial Crimes Commission (FCC). Pravind Jugnauth was arrested along with three other suspects in a raid in which police seized 114 million Mauritius rupees (US$2.5M). The FCC objected to Jugnauth’s release, but the magistrate held [...]
Ugandan political activist and lawyer Norbert Mao announced on Monday that the case concerning prominent opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, is in the course of transfer from the Ugandan Court Martial to the High Court. He stated that the Attorney General, Director of Public Prosecutions, and the principal judge are working to transfer the case, following [...]
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemned the looting of its warehouses in Bukavu, South Kivu, amid escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday. The theft of 7,000 tonnes of humanitarian food supplies intended for vulnerable communities has intensified concerns over the growing humanitarian crisis in the [...]
The president of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation (GTANW) in Peru on Monday denounced the use of local children as “human shields” to protect illegal mining activities and demanded the declaration of a state of emergency, according to local media. The Wampis Indigenous Nation has more than 10,000 inhabitants. In 2015, the [...]
Argentine lawyers filed fraud complaints on Sunday against President Javier Milei over his promotion of cryptocurrency. President Milei shared an advertisement for cryptocurrency $LIBRA via X on Friday, claiming that the coin would help fund small businesses. President Milei included a link to purchase $LIBRA in his post. His promotion caused a steep increase in [...]
The UN reaffirmed Monday during a Security Council session that any peace negotiations in Ukraine must adhere to the UN Charter while “respecting the country’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.” “The United Nations encourages dialogue among all stakeholders and welcomes all genuine efforts and initiatives, with the full participation of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, that [...]
