Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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13 Jan, 2021

Humanitarian Crisis

Nigeria’s Camp of Death

The detentions followed violent attacks by armed groups and bandits, after which the Nigerian military launched a security operation in January 2026, rounding up entire…

30 April, 2026

Burns, Starvations and Floods

In Lebanon, one in four people now faces acute hunger. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification platform warns that approximately 1.2 million people could experience…

30 April, 2026

Syria · Cuba · Myanmar

In Cuba, six months after Hurricane Melissa struck in late October 2025, affecting more than two million people, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes, and…

29 April, 2026

South Sudan: A Nation Starving

Some 2.2 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. The number of acutely malnourished children aged six months to five years has risen by 100,000 cases…

29 April, 2026

Sahel Under Siege: Coordinated Attacks Devastate Mali

UN Secretary-General António Guterres responded by calling for “robust security coordination” across the wider Sahel region and for urgent humanitarian funding to reach the 3.8…

27 April, 2026

Hunger & Conflict

The crisis is compounded by a collapse in financing: humanitarian and development funding for food and nutrition responses has fallen to levels last seen nearly…

27 April, 2026

An Unmarked Graveyard in the Andaman Sea

Left to drown, left to disappear The world’s indifference to the Rohingya and Uyghur crises is measured in lives 900 Rohingya dead or missing at…

20 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

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