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The right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken steps to increase the number of homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, prompting international condemnation.
William O’Neill, who was appointed expert on human rights in Haiti in April, spoke at the end of a 10-day trip during which he met with officials and victims of gang violence.
Brazilian government warning comes as UN report says that flourishing organized crime groups are driving a boom in environmental devastation The Brazilian government’s drug policy chief has admitted that the rapid advance of drug factions into the Amaz…
The U.N. Security Council statement urged Israel and the Palestinians to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile West Bank.
First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since camp was set up says men subjected to ‘inhuman and degrading’ treatmentThe US government continues to subject the 30 men held at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment…
Report details widespread and systematic torture with summary executions of more than 70 peopleRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesRussian forces have carried out widespread and systematic torture of civilians detained in connection with their atta…
“I saw people eating plants that are usually only used to feed animals,” said one resident of a camp for displaced Syrians that sits in the shadow of an American military base but has been cut off from aid for years.
Author of landmark UK review into the economic value of nature joins UN environment chief in calls for ‘action, not just words’ on biodiversity goalsHumans are exploiting nature beyond its limits, the University of Cambridge economist Prof Sir Partha D…
Intervention by International Labour Organization ‘hugely embarrassing’ for government, says TUCUnion leaders vow to carry on fight for better wages and working conditionsThe UN’s labour standards body has told the UK government it must make changes to…
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee saysPeru violated the rights of a 13-year-old girl who had been repeatedly raped by her father by denying her an abortion afte…