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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…
Pope Leo XIV Uses Spain Visit to Warn of a World in Crisis
Much of the address was devoted to migration. The pontiff, who is the first American to hold the office, has already clashed with the Trump…
Cambodia’s Scam Crackdown and the Victims It Left Behind
Amnesty International’s researchers, who visited 75 of the 86 compounds they had by then identified across the country, found a very different picture. Evidence of…
Peacekeeping on the Frontline in the Central African Republic
The operation in Zémio was one moment in a mission that encompasses far more than armed confrontation. In the west of the country, where the…
North Korea’s Forced Labour Reaches Europe
A 2024 investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project traced North Korean forced labour to Chinese seafood processing plants whose products entered supply chains across the…
Peacekeeping’s Enduring Price
More than 50,000 peacekeepers are currently deployed across the globe, mandated to protect civilians, support elections, deliver humanitarian aid, and clear landmines. The head of…
America’s Detention Shame
On Thursday June 5th, more than half a dozen detainees telephoned the Workers Circle, an advocacy group that liaises between detainees and their families. The…
The Housing Crisis Finds Its Road Map
That declaration carried political weight precisely because it was contested. In many wealthy countries, housing had been treated primarily as an investment asset, a source…
Haiti Takes a Step Towards Justice
OHCHR spokesperson Marta Hurtado stressed that for the units to succeed they must be genuinely independent, both institutionally and individually, and that the safety of…
Fields of Despair: How a Distant War Is Starving Myanmar’s Farmers
Myanmar was once the world’s rice bowl. Before the second world war it exported more of the staple than any other nation on earth. Decades…
Banning Children from Social Media Is Not Enough, the UN Warns
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the harms children face in digital spaces were not inevitable but the result of deliberate…
The UN Honours Its Blue Helmets and Calls for Renewed Investment in Peace
Secretary-General António Guterres described peacekeeping as a proven and cost-effective tool for stabilising conflicts, protecting civilians and supporting political solutions. He paid tribute to the…
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