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Conflict-Related Sexual Violence More Than Doubled in 2025
The report notes that non-state armed groups, including organised criminal networks, continued to use sexual violence to exert control over communities and resource-rich territory, while…
Belgium Cannot Apologize Its Way Out of Colonial Justice
The organisations now call on Belgium to implement the judgment promptly, refrain from further delay, and adopt a comprehensive reparations framework for all Métis people…
Football’s Finest Take Up the Baton for Human Rights
The initiative, known as Football for the Goals, was launched in 2022 when UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed observed that football carries a powerful…
Counting What Counts
A report released this month by an expert group appointed by the UN Secretary-General proposes a dashboard of 31 alternative indicators for measuring economic progress.…
Children in the Data Machine
A class action lawsuit filed in the Netherlands this week has put the American technology company AppLovin in the dock over allegations that it has…
Stars of Displacement: UNHCR Fields A Team of Footballers Forged by Forced Flight
Ahead of the World Cup, the UN refugee agency assembles a squad of professional players whose lives were shaped by war and persecution
The World in Brief: A Fragile Economy, A starving Gaza and Violence from South Sudan to San Diego
Geopolitical tensions displace trade disputes as the leading threat to global stability, while humanitarian crises deepen and attacks on civilians multiply
Four Years Under the Trees: One Man’s Journey from Stability to the Streets and Back
A former European Commission employee whose passport was confiscated during a fraud investigation spent nearly four years homeless in Spain. His story, now a documentary,…
The Execution Surge
Nearly half of all recorded executions globally were for drug-related offences, a category that does not meet the threshold of the most serious crimes under…
Syria: Amnesty Demands Investigation into Home Demolitions in Quneitra
Satellite imagery and eyewitness testimony underpin the call for accountability and reparations.
Cuba’s Health System Under Blackout: The Human Toll Is Already Visible
The UN’s messaging, blunt for diplomatic norms, warns of a possible humanitarian “collapse” unless the flow of assistance and energy solutions is accelerated. That is…
The Bomb That Will Not Go Away
Before proceedings could begin, a diplomatic spat broke out over Iran’s nomination by the Non-Aligned Movement as a vice-president of the General Committee. The United…
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