Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Armed Conflict

In Gaza and Iran, the Health Toll of War Deepens

More than 1,800 health facilities have been damaged or destroyed in Gaza; in Iran, three months of dialysis-filter supplies remain.

26 April, 2026

The Treaty Holding the Nuclear Order Together Is Fraying at the Seams

A review conference beginning April 27th convenes as every Cold War-era arms-control agreement has either expired or been abandoned.

26 April, 2026

Sudan’s Women: Nowhere Is Safe

Three years of war have left millions displaced, imperilled and underfunded. What do Sudan’s women say they want? Overwhelmingly, they want to go home. Pending…

19 April, 2026

The World Pledged Nearly $1.8 Billion for Sudan

The structural problem with the conference was one it shared with its predecessors in Paris and London. Neither the Sudanese Armed Forces nor the paramilitary…

16 April, 2026

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