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Photo by ErikaWittlieb  on pixabay.com   Israel continues generating geopolitical instability by attacking neighboring countries, among which is Lebanon, and causing numerous casualties, even among the civilian population.  Indeed, more than one year after the deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Southern Lebanon, Israel not only did not retrieve its troops, but has also been conducting large-scale attacks in the region. The systematic destruction of infrastructure has

Photo by Kelly on pexels.com   A recent United Nations (UN) report has unveiled the massive extent of child exploitation and abuse in Haiti. As armed groups traffic underage boys and girls and force them into criminal activities, the international community is calling for concrete actions to stop further human rights violations. The  report , published by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, highlighted that 26 armed g

Photo by @padri nan on Pixabay.com   Major donor nations are dealing a detrimental blow to the right to health for millions of people worldwide as they make major cuts to funding for global health aid programmes. Most of these cuts come to the WHO Global Fund, which is a fund for health aid covering programmes to fight tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS . These cuts, especially those made by the US, are however affecting other areas of global health, such as programmes targeting

Photo on pixabay.com In December 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted “ a decision and a regulation establishing a global human rights sanctions regime ”. This innovative framework allowed the EU to target individuals, entities, and bodies, whether as State actors or non-State actors, “ responsible for, involved in or associated with serious human rights violations and abuses worldwide, no matter where they occurred ”. The acts for which this framework was designed

Photo by Ravi Sharma on unsplash.com The UK’s controversial “one in, one out”  asylum policy, a bilateral return and resettlement agreement with France aimed at discouraging small boat Channel crossings, is facing mounting scrutiny from rights groups, legal challenges,s and data analysts as 2026 unfolds. Under the pilot scheme launched in August 2025,  the UK detains some people arriving irregularly by small boat and returns them to France. In exchange, France agrees to trans

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 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 Anfaenger on Pixabay.com The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is facing one of the most severe financial crises in its history, threatening its ability to protect human rights at a time of escalating global conflict. Speaking in Geneva on December 10, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that the office is operating in “survival mode” following major funding cuts from international donors, according to Reuter

Photo by JACLOU-DL on Pixabay.com The atrocities in Sudan have not ceased; as a matter of fact, the situation appears to be worsening. The ongoing conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in April 2023, spreading rapidly throughout the whole State, and causing one of the most devastating humanitarian crises happening worldwide. Indeed, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), at

Photo by RDNE Stock project on pexels.com   The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is now considered one of the most concerning active global issues. As the situation has deteriorated in recent months, international institutions such as the European Union (EU) have become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid. Recently, the European Commission has invested in flights aimed at providing life-saving assistance to the western region of D

Photo by Mumtahina Tanni on pexels.com   Amnesty International reveals that Dalit women sanitation workers in Bangladesh are currently facing human rights violations. As the country is among those most affected by climate change, international authorities have raised their concerns about this minority group’s access to water and other essential resources. Amnesty International  recently published a report exposing human rights abuses and gender-based violence against Dalit wo

Photo by Angelo_Giordano on Pixabay.com On September 1st, a magnitude 6 earthquake hit the eastern part of Afghanistan . The aftermath was catastrophic: 2,200 killed, 3,600 injured, and thousands of people were left homeless . The current Taliban government faced its first major natural disaster earlier in 2022 , when another earthquake killed 1,000 people in the same region as this year.  The aid agencies working in the territory were already confronting funding cuts, worse

Photo by consolersafari on pixabay.com From the bombs that fell on city streets to the dusty roads of villages in Darfur and Kordofan, the war in Sudan has turned women’s bodies into battlegrounds. According to UN Women, there is mounting evidence that rape is being used “deliberately and systematically as a weapon of war.” In the besieged region of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, women fleeing bombardment, hunger and displacement recount terrifying stories of gang r

Photo by hosnysalah on pixabay.com Hospitals across Gaza are facing a critical shortage of essential medical supplies as Israeli airstrikes intensify, according to medics and aid workers on the ground. Despite a fragile, U.S. backed ceasefire, facilities like Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis are overwhelmed, with daily inflows of casualties and dwindling stocks of gauze, antiseptics, thermometers and antibiotics. Mohammed Saqr, Director of Nursing at Nasser, described the situa

Photo by Danilo A renas on pexels.com   The United Nations (UN) has urged the government of Colombia to act on what it has been described as “a human rights emergency”. A recent evaluation demonstrated that the high levels of mercury in the Atrato River In Colombia are threatening the health of people living in the area. The UN presented evidence  that more than a third of the population living in the Atrato River basin has been exposed to mercury levels exceeding the paramet

Photo by jorono on Pixabay.com Since late January, fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has intensified after the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group seized the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu, sparking a wave of human rights abuses.   Amnesty International reports that M23 fighters have raided hospitals, abducting patients, including wounded soldiers and civilians, from their beds and subjecting them to torture.  The organization has documented cases of

Photo by hosnysalah on Pixabay.com In the past two years, due to the attacks perpetrated by the Israeli forces, the situation in Gaza has been exacerbating: people without shelters and forcibly displaced, with no access to basic needs and medication , resulting in barriers to accessing care. Within this scenario, women and girls are facing a living ordeal which undermines their health and could lead to gynecological hurdles , not to forget the psychological implications relat

photo by hosnysalah on pixabay.com After more than two years of intense conflict, the situation in Gaza remains extremely fragile: a cease-fire mediated on 10 October has reduced, but not eliminated, large-scale hostilities, opening some humanitarian corridors and initiating negotiations for what comes next. However, the truce is unstable, with exchanges of fire and rapid changes on the ground keeping civilians and humanitarian workers under constant threat. From a humanitari