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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 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 @pezhman1355 on Unsplash.com NGO Iran Human Rights is denouncing a record number of executions being carried out in Iran in September 2025, and more generally in the first 9 months of 2025. The NGO denounces at least 171 executions in the month of September 2025 alone, an unprecedented number which brings the number of executions since the beginning of the year to over 1000 . This is the fifth consecutive year that Iran has experienced an increase in death penalties

Photo by dimitrisvetsikas1969 on pixabay.com   Houthi rebels have recently released United Nations (UN) staff members who were illegally detained in Yemen. In recent years, dozens UN employees have been imprisoned, and some have died while in custody; this highlights an ongoing human rights issue that has been firmly addressed by the international community. In October, Houthi rebels detained 20 UN staff  in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, including five Yemeni nationals and 15 int

Photo by Daniel Omolewa on Unsplash.com On September 25, 2025, the Netherlands and Uganda signed a Declaration of Intent,  representing yet another problematic case of the externalization of migration management .  Promoted by the extreme right-wing component of the Dutch political landscape (PVV) , this scheme delegates the most critical phase of the asylum procedure,  the coercive return of rejected international protection applicants, to a third State.  This raises complex

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 Following two years of war that has killed  over 68,000 Palestinians , the U.S.-arranged ceasefire in October brought only a  brief pause to a population exhausted by intense bombardment and forced to endure years of suffering and displacement . This “peace” caused a desperate mass movement as  over 425,000 displaced residents  began the long, frantic journey back to Gaza City and northern areas. Yet, the initial joy of the truce was immedi

Photo by hosnysalah  on pixabay.com Over the last two years, several voices have raised accusing Israel and its governors of the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza: in particular, the Republic of South Africa pressed charges in December 2023 , alleging violations by Israel of its obligations under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide .  The International Court of Justice (ICJ) still hasn’t issued its final ruling,

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

photo by falco on pixabay.com Saudi Arabia has witnessed a record-breaking rise in executions in 2025, with at least 241 people executed...

photo by hosnysalah on pixabay.com She came to Italy seeking treatment and a chance at life, but hope quickly faded for 20-year-old Marah...

photo by hosnysalah on pixabay.com The current crisis in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a large-scale attack against...