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United Nations (UN) independent experts on Monday called on Russia to end long-standing trafficking and forced labor of migrant women predominantly from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in the Golyanovo district of Moscow.
Expressing concern over the “credible and well-documented allegations of...
Amnesty International criticized the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor on Monday for dashing the hopes of survivors of atrocities by the military in Nigeria, after failing to formally move to open an investigation more than five years after deciding that an investigation in...
The Israeli military on Sunday intercepted a civilian vessel, detaining 21 international activists and journalists who were aiming to break the naval blockade of Gaza by Israel.
In a statement, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international grassroots network of human rights and civil society...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday announced that the UK will airdrop aid into Gaza and evacuate children for more specialized medical aid.
In a public statement, Starmer claimed that the UK is “working urgently” with the Jordanian authorities to get aid into planes and delivered to...
Four years after their arrest for peacefully advocating for political reform, Members of the Eswatini Parliament, Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube, have been declared ‘prisoners of conscience’ by Amnesty International. Friday’s designation highlights mounting concern over the country’s...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged a rights-based approach in a letter on Friday to the newly appointed African Union (AU) Special Envoy for the Sahel, Burundi President H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye.
HRW welcomed President Ndayishimiye’s appointment as Sahel envoy in its formal letter. The...
UN Special Rapporteur Balakrishan Rajagopal called on Friday for Guatemala to immediately suspend its “violent and inhumane” evictions amid concerns that they violate international law.
Specifically, the UN expert is concerned that during the forced evictions, houses are burned down, as well as...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday convicted two Anti-balaka militia leaders, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) between 2013 and 2014. Yekatom was sentenced to 15 years in...
The Epping Forest District Council in Essex unanimously passed a motion on Thursday urging the UK government to immediately and permanently close the Bell Hotel, which is currently being used to house asylum seekers.
The council called upon local members of parliament (MPs) to support its...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must take immediate action to combat human trafficking amid ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern regions, a high-ranking UN official urged Friday.
Siobhán Mullally, the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, said in a statement:
Human...
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