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
Journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov were beaten in Chechnya. According to the Committee against Torture, the victims flew to Grozny to attend final verdict of Zarema Musayeva. On the way from the airport, their car was blocked by armed men.
The Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union on Monday approved its 9th package of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over violation of human rights in Iran, sanctioning 7 Iranian officials including IRGC commanders and judiciary officials
1 year agoThis morning, the team on GeoBarents rescued 13 people, including 2 women and 2 unaccompanied minors, who were in distress on a unseaworthy rubber boat. The survivors had spent more than 3 days at the Mediterranean sea
Security guards at Tehran University attacked students at the School of Fine Arts after a quarrel with a student over her head covering. The guards reportedly beat a number of students who had come to the defense of the female student
1 year agoThe High Commissioner for Human Rights today published its report on the Moura massacre, where 500 civilians were killed in March 2022. nnThe main suspects are the Malian army and mercenaries from the Wagner group. The most interesting part being the images integrated into the report
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk: “On average so far this year, over 10 people are put to death each week in Iran, making it one the world’s highest executors
.@UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk "horrified" by brutal Myanmar military air attacks in Sagaing. Adds army's shown "blatant disregard for the related rules of international law" & believes military leadership will be held "accountable for such crimes"
