The average Palestinian in Gaza is living on just two pieces of Arabic bread, the Gaza director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday, highlighting the humanitarian crisis and the dire rarity of resources residents are experiencing as the
Iran will take the chair of a United Nations human rights social forum on Thursday, with many critical of the appointment due to Tehran’s decades-long record of human rights abuses and terrorism. “The United States finds it absurd that an official from
He explained: “The PTPA, like other players associations, exists to represent all players. That includes players with various viewpoints on nuanced and complicated issues such as holding events in Saudi Arabia (or any other location). Players must remain free to play –
The U.N.’s top human rights body agreed Thursday to renew the work of an independent expert who has reported on deteriorating human rights conditions in Russia after President Vladimir Putin launched his war on Ukraine last year. The Human Rights Council voted
In a concerning development, several decades after the conclusion of Mexico’s “dirty war,” the military appears to have impeded a government-led investigation into human rights violations. Investigators had decided to withdraw from the inquiry last month after uncovering troubling evidence that military
The top human rights body of the United Nations voted on Wednesday to establish a fact-finding mission to scrutinize allegations of wrongdoing within Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Sudan plunged into turmoil in mid-April when longstanding tensions between the military and a formidable paramilitary
In response to Albuquerque’s violent crimes, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham placed an emergency public health order to restrict gun-carry rights in certain public areas. Grisham defended her decision as critics describe the provisions as an assault on constitutional rights to self-defense.
Russia is seeking to reclaim its position on the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. The Eastern European superpower was removed from the council after its invasion of Ukraine, but is hoping to field enough votes from nations in the Global South to
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday held a moment of silence in memory of the “innocent lives” lost in the “occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere,” while failing to honor those who died in Israel when attacked by troops in Palestine.
Police officers will discuss whether they want access to “full industrial rights” – which could see them strike for the first time in more than a century. As crown servants, officers are banned from taking industrial action. But years of bitter battles