Hamas has committed to release 20 women and children over the next two days, NSC's John Kirby says
Egyptian source: 13 detainees in the Gaza Strip, including women and children, will be released at 4 p.m. tomorrow, Friday.
UNICEF, World Health Organization, and the United Nations call for international action to stop the attack on Gaza hospitals
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs: The situation is getting worse in the West Bank
UN Relief Coordinator: The bombing of Jabalia is the latest atrocity inflicted on the residents of Gaza
United Nations: It is alarming that two-thirds of those who died in Gaza were women and children
Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: We are concerned about the casualties of civilians in Gaza
UN Human Rights Rapporteur: Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights: Israeli air strikes flattened many Gaza neighborhoods
United Nations Human Rights Office: The Israeli siege on Gaza and the evacuation order are a violation of international law
European Union Foreign Policy Commissioner: Human suffering cannot be a bargaining chip
UN Relief Coordinator: Orders to evacuate 1.1 million people from Gaza contradict the laws of war
UN Relief Coordinator: Calling on civilians to move between densely populated areas in Gaza without stopping the fighting is dangerous and abhorrent
UN experts condemn the "horrific" Hamas attacks and Israeli "collective punishment" on Gaza
Hamas: We call on the Arab and Islamic nation and the international community to oblige the opening of the crossings to supply the Gaza Strip with its needs
An ICC prosecutor says its mandate applies to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Hamas in talks to free Israeli women, children hostages in exchange for release of 36 Palestinian women and children from Israeli jails - source to @Reuters
The Iranian representative left the room in protest as UN Human Rights Committee opened with a minute's silence in memory of the victims in Israel
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly."
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 for her "fight against the oppression of women" in her country
The White House: The new sanctions on Iran are linked to human rights violations
1 year agoBosnian Serb leader Dodik has attacked Schmidt, delegitimizing him by not being approved by the UN Security Council and declaring that his actions as a "foreigner imposing the laws in BiH" act "against Human Rights"
Reuters: Washington imposes sanctions on the Deputy Commander of the Rapid Support Forces against the backdrop of his forces' human rights violations in Sudan
Sources told KabulNow that the clash began on Friday night when forces of the Taliban’s Defense Ministry in coordination with its local Pashtun members tried to seize a military base run by the group’s Uzbek fighters in Masjid-e-Safed village in Baharak district.n
1 year agoMali: JNIM militants increase their pressure around Timbuktu. 26/08 Projection of 2 mortar shells causing 1 death and 3 injuries including 1 serious. 27/08 Burning of a truck transporting fuel. The militants block the road coming from Mauritania. Only small vehicles can pass as well as women and children. The impact is felt on the prices of fuel and basic foodstuffs (increase of 50 to 100%)
US Department of State: The United States condemns the Lukashenka government’s decision to label @Viasna96 Human Rights Center an “extremist formation.” We stand in solidarity with the people of Belarus and their legitimate demands for accountability and respect for human rights
1 year agoState Department says it’s imposing visa restrictions on officials of #China “for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools.”
UN Commissioner for Human Rights: We call on the generals in Niger to restore constitutional order immediately
Washington imposes new sanctions on Russian individuals accused of violating human rights
Josep Borrell: We have adopted new sanctions in reaction to Lukashenka regime's human rights violations & repression against the Belarusian people & against its complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine. We stand by the Belarusian people in their quest for peace & democracy. EU imposes new sanctions against 38 people & 3 entities sectoral restrictions on firearms, aviation and space industry
