Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Editorial

A Generation Left Behind

One of the report’s most important findings is also its most counterintuitive to those who might assume that demand for education collapses in humanitarian emergencies.…

24 June, 2026

Aid Decline Compounds Suffering Amid Ongoing Military Attacks

Myanmar has been in conflict since the military seized power in February 2021. The OHCHR report notes that foreign actors continue to transfer arms, ammunition,…

23 June, 2026

The Collapse of Child Protection in Armed Conflict

Killing and maiming remained the most frequently verified violation category in 2025. Some 6,266 children were killed and a further 7,958 maimed, representing increases of…

18 June, 2026

A Perilous Reckoning for the World’s Fight Against AIDS

The toll falls disproportionately on the young. Every week 3,000 adolescent girls and young women in sub–Saharan Africa acquire HIV, a figure that has barely…

15 June, 2026

World Day Against Child Labour: The Day the World Plays While Its Children Work

By sector, agriculture is where the problem is most concentrated and, not coincidentally, where it is hardest to address. Sixty-one per cent of all child…

11 June, 2026

Slow Progress: Twenty Years of Disability Rights

Only 28 per cent of people with significant disabilities have access to social protection benefits globally, while on average households with a person with a…

10 June, 2026

A Sea of Sorrows: The Unending Death Toll in the Central Mediterranean

For years, civilian rescue organisations operated vessels in the Central Mediterranean to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of the Italian navy’s Mare Nostrum…

9 June, 2026

Money, Rights, and the Climate

The political process surrounding the new collective quantified goal on climate finance remains deeply complex, with disagreements over the base year, the definition of what…

8 June, 2026