US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Monday stated that all parties involved in the conflict in Ethiopia committed war crimes. Blinken said the US Department of State found that the Amhara forces, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), Ethiopia National Defense Forces (ENDF), and Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) engaged in crimes [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the federal government of Somalia Mondat released a report highlighting the frightening consequences of drought in Somalia. Compared to 2017 and 2018, the report states that famine-related deaths increased to at least 43,000 in 2022. The organization also decried the region’s lack of humanitarian aid. According to aid [...]

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Friday issued a report about the well-being of children in the central Sahel Region. The report claims that 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and an additional 4 million are in danger as a result of the conflict spreading to nearby nations. [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Counter-Terrorism, Fionnuala Aoláin, Tuesday expressed concern that digital technologies used to combat terrorism contribute to human rights violations around the world. The expert’s report highlighted several avenues through which counter-terrorism arguments are used to encourage the development and use of biometric [...]

A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Matthew Saltmarsh, Friday expressed concern about the growing number of people fleeing their homes as a result of fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Saltmarsh emphasized that the DRC has 5.8 million internally displaced people in Africa, making it the continent’s [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Friday released a report highlighting numerous human rights violations in Myanmar two years after the military coup. The report states: Myanmar’s conflict landscape has changed dramatically, highlighting concerns for the protection of civilians. By late 2021, and throughout 2022, violence intensified especially in the [...]

A group of 60 civil and human rights organizations Tuesday urged the United Nations to oppose Ethiopia’s request to end the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE), the body tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict. The organizations, led by Human Rights Watch (HRW), cited Ethiopians’ [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tunisia Director Salsabil Chellali Monday urged Tunisian authorities to reinstate dismissed judges and prosecutors and remove all measures used to subdue judicial authority. President Kais Saied dismissed 57 magistrates last year as part of an “anti-corruption” crusade. According to Chellali, ”These blows to judicial independence reflect the government’s determination to subjugate [...]

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Bruno Lemarquis Wednesday indicated in a report that the UN will need to raise $2.25 billion to combat widespread the mass displacement of people in the DRC. Lemarquis stated that security incidents against aid workers in the DRC continue to be a major barrier [...]

Organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday urged a Somali court to dismiss charges against journalist Abdalle Ahmed Mumin. The groups also claimed that the government’s decision to apprehend Mumin was an attempt to victimize strong-willed Somali journalists. In a letter to Somalia’s attorney general, the groups [...]