Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Armed Conflict

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

Human Rights & The Middle East’s Grinding Machine

Israeli strikes across Lebanon killed at least 39 people on a single Sunday in late March, according to UN-monitored reports. In Gaza, the UN and…

7 April, 2026

Bombs, Rubble and Rising Humanitarian Need

As Israeli strikes continue across Lebanon, the human toll mounts and the prospects for peace recede

6 April, 2026

Dying in Childbirth, One Shortage at a Time

In Sudan’s only western referral maternity hospital, doctors watch patients die for want of gloves and antibiotics. The war has come for mothers too.

5 April, 2026