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Photo by hosny salah  on Pixabay .com After more than two years of Gaza being subjected to intensified Israeli attacks and military operations, the birth rate of the territory has fallen by 41% , with only 17 000 new recorded births in the first half of 2025 , a new 2026 report by Physicians for Human Rights concludes. This fall in births is the result of Israel’s targeted attacks on Gazan health care facilities and hospitals, restricted circulation and entry of medical suppl

Photo by Trev W. Adams on Pexels.com The protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have not stopped; if anything, recent events have escalated the situation. Over the last few weeks, the city has made headlines worldwide for protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its strategy for federal immigration enforcement. Indeed, ICE is the US law enforcement agency in charge of the mass deportation initiative promised by President Trump during his electoral c

Photo by Lara Jameson on pexel.com On January 9, 2026, the civil war in Sudan marked its 1,000th day. Nearly three years of relentless violence have created what United Nation agencies describe as the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis.  While other global emergencies are dreadful, none match Sudan’s simultaneous levels of conflict, intensity, mass displacement, acute hunger, and systemic obstruction of aid. The conflict began in April 2023 when the Sudanese Armed Forces

Photo by Taylor Brandon on Unsplash.com Israeli authorities have demolished the compounds of the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem . The UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; its mandate concerns providing humanitarian aid and relief for Palestinians in the occupied territories of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and to refugees in neighbouring countries . For years, the agency has been the target of a financial

Photo by Derks24 on pixabay.com   The climate crisis is posing a serious challenge to human rights worldwide. According to experts, urgent action is required to prevent further harm to basic rights, particularly as in 2025 the global temperature surpassed the limit of 1.5°C  for the first time in history. In 2025, several international institutions, including Human Rights Watch  and the European Union, underlined that climate change is contributing to a global decline in huma

Photo by José Santana Murias on Pexels.com In the first weeks of 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, became a focal point of protests, social tension and institutional conflict linked to operations carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to the broader federal immigration enforcement strategy adopted by the White House . The sequence of events, community reactions, legal actions and the national policy backdrop reveal a complex situation that goes wel

Photo by silvio mencare lli on pexels.com   In 2025, Saudi Arabian authorities set a new record, but not a positive one: at least 356 people were executed , the highest number recorded in a single year since systematic monitoring began. This surpasses the previous record of 345 executions in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of a dramatic increase in capital punishment. The scale of the phenomenon reveals a stark pattern. Nearly 70 percent of those sentenced to death

Photo by Andrés Silva   on Unsplash.com   In January 2026, the Venezuelan government announced that  116 prisoners had been released,  describing the move as an effort to ease political tensions. Human rights organizations immediately questioned the claim, arguing that the actual number of verified releases was significantly lower.  At the time of reporting, rights groups were only able to confirm the release of 41 detainees at the time of reporting , raising concerns over tr

Photo by consolersafari on Pixabay.com One month has passed since the Rwanda-backed  M23 group announced its withdrawal from the town of Uvira, Congo . The decision came after the U.S. administration heavily criticized the seizure of the town as a threat to the peace process brokered by Washington, which marked the latest escalation in the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Located in the north of Lake Tanganyika, in the South Kivu, Uvira is a port

Photo by Kaufdex on Pixabay.com After the US’ operation in Venezuela on the 3rd of January, with the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, the UN human rights office expressed concerns about a violation of international law and the danger of this action . Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN rights office, stated that the international community must be united in recognizing this violation and that “states must not threaten or use force against the territorial integri