The United States was the lone nation to vote against the Agreed Conclusions by the UN Commission on the State of Women (CSW) that were officially adopted Thursday. The US took issue with language in the document related to abortion rights, artificial intelligence regulation and what the White House called “gender ideology,” offering draft amendments [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday expressed concern over the Peruvian Constitutional Court’s decision ordering the release of former military officer Daniel Urresti Elera, who was convicted of the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos in the context of Peru’s internal war and crimes against humanity. The experts stated that applying domestic limitation periods to [...]

UN officials spoke at a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, calling for the international community to increase support for Syrian social and political progress amid war in the Middle East. Deputy special envoy for Syria, Claudio Cordone; UN humanitarian affairs official, Joyce Msuya; and good-will ambassador and Syrian Olympic athlete, Yusra Mardini, warned how current violence [...]

Amnesty International on Monday urged tech company Meta to address concerns over harmful online content on Facebook, citing risk of sectarian tensions, discrimination and violence against minority communities in Bangladesh. The rights group described a troubling rise in “misleading and inflammatory content spread in relation to political parties and minority communities.” Alia Al Ghussain, Amnesty [...]

A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered 93-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon to stand trial for his role in the 1961 assassination of the first elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Patrice Lumumba. Davignon, who was a junior diplomatic intern at the time of the assassination, is the first person to be [...]

Amnesty International said Tuesday that Algerian authorities should immediately reverse the closure of the Algiers office of SOS Disappeared, a human rights group that has long advocated for truth, justice and reparations for families of people forcibly disappeared during Algeria’s 1990s internal armed conflict. The closure was ordered by the Algiers governorate on March 12, [...]

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday that the escalating hostilities in the Middle East could lead to record levels of food insecurity and the largest disruption in humanitarian intervention since the COVID-19 pandemic. WFP deputy executive director and chief operating officer Carl Skau said, “If this conflict continues, it will send shockwaves across [...]

The agency UN Women vowed on Tuesday to continue its provision of aid for women and girls in Afghanistan even in the face of stringent restrictions and the ongoing conflict in the region. UN Women Afghanistan special representative Susan Ferguson confirmed: “Despite the restrictions on women and girls and the current conflicts…no matter what, UN [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday called for those responsible for a US strike on an Iranian school to be held accountable. The February 28 strike on the girls’ school in Minab, in southern Iran, killed over 100 children. Amnesty’s Evidence Lab conducted an investigation into the strike, analyzing over 30 satellite images and reviewing official statements, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday called on the newly elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to use its recent electoral success as an opportunity to commit to enacting laws and policies that will provide lasting human rights protections. Following Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s election victory last month, HRW and eight other human rights groups wrote a [...]