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Gaza: Strikes on houses and tents responsible for over half of deaths this week

·May 26, 2025·3 min read

629 Palestinians were reportedly killed in the last week, according to OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. At least 358 were killed because of attacks targeting houses and tents for displaced people, with children and women comprising at least 148 of the victims. “The high number of strikes on shelters,...

UN aviation council finds Russia responsible for downing of Malaysia Airlines flight

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·May 13, 2025·1 min read

The council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) voted on Monday that Russia failed to uphold its obligations under international air law which requires that States “refrain from resorting to the use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight.” The case was brought by the Netherlands and Australia. “This...

Will those responsible for atrocities in Syria finally face justice?

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·January 18, 2025·5 min read

For years, UN human rights bodies have been documenting, monitoring and publishing reports on abuses, and bringing Syria’s dire human rights record to the world’s attention. The fall of Bashar al Assad in December 2024 was largely greeted with euphoria by the Syrian people, but images of hundreds of people...

Afghanistan’s Taliban responsible for revenge killings, torture of former officials

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·August 23, 2023·1 min read

A new publication from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) presents “credible” reports that between 15 August 2021 and 30 June 2023, the country’s de facto authorities were responsible for 218 extrajudicial killings, 14 enforced disappearances, over 144 instances of torture and ill treatment, and 424 arbitrary arrests and detentions. ...

Human Rights Council: Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine

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·February 28, 2023·4 min read

Speaking only days since a large majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the UN chief stressed that Russia’s decision to go to war against its neighbour on 24 February 2022 had unleashed “widespread death, destruction and displacement”....