Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Armed Conflict

Diplomacy Flickers in Washington While the Bombs Keep Falling on Lebanon

The humanitarian consequences are beginning to ripple outward. The United Nations warned this week that uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz is threatening to choke…

16 April, 2026

Abandoned, Not Forgotten

Callamard called on the UN Security Council to extend the existing arms embargo beyond Darfur to the rest of Sudan. She also implicated the United…

15 April, 2026

A War on Women and Children

The drone war has also destroyed the infrastructure upon which civilian life depends. Between 70 and 80 percent of health facilities in conflict areas are…

15 April, 2026

Three Years into a War That Has Shattered a Nation, the World Convenes in Berlin with Fine Words and Empty Coffers

“This grim and chastening anniversary marks another year when the world has failed to meet the test of Sudan,” said Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Emergency…

15 April, 2026

Sudan: War & Humanitarian Crisis in Figures

The figures cited in this report are drawn from a constellation of UN agencies, humanitarian monitoring bodies, and field organisations. Displacement and malnutrition data come…

15 April, 2026

Don’t Diminish the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan

HRW urges Security Council members to maintain the mission’s full civilian protection mandate and calls on regional and international partners to push back against obstruction,…

14 April, 2026

Sudan: World Leaders Must Act on Ongoing Atrocities

HRW is urging the EU to join a newly formed atrocity prevention coalition, pressing the African Union to move beyond statements toward coordinated diplomatic action,…

14 April, 2026

In South Sudan, Both Sides Are Using Civilians as A Weapon

The scale of the crisis is staggering. Since clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition intensified…

13 April, 2026

War & Accountability

Women and children survived on animal fodder while European foreign ministers drafted carefully worded communiques about their deep concern!A coalition of major rights organisations, including…

8 April, 2026

The UN Accuses World Leaders of Threatening Civilisational Annihilation

Türk did not name Trump, nor the other belligerents in a conflict that began on February 28th. But his meaning was plain. He said he…

7 April, 2026

Global Austerity & Sudan’s Bottomless Pit

Sudan is, by almost every measure, the world’s most acute humanitarian crisis. The 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, published by OCHA, puts the number…

7 April, 2026