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How climate change is threatening human rights

·December 26, 2025·8 min read

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk echoed this message in Geneva earlier this year and posed a question before the Human Rights Council: “Are we taking the steps needed to protect people from climate chaos, safeguard their futures and manage natural resources in ways that respect human rights...

Civilians at risk amid escalating Thailand-Cambodia conflict: UN rights chief

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·December 21, 2025·1 min read

“I am alarmed by reports that areas around villages and cultural sites are being struck by fighter jets, drones, and artillery,” he said. “Under international humanitarian law, it is very clear that protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure is paramount.” Renewed fighting Since fighting reignited on 7 December,...

‘We won’t stop’: Afghan women keep businesses alive despite sweeping rights abuses

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·December 11, 2025·5 min read

For many, running a small business has become the only viable path to earning an income – and a way to support other women who have lost their jobs. With help from the UN, these entrepreneurs are keeping their livelihoods going, often in the face of intense social pressure and...

Syria: Effort to buttress human rights since Assad’s fall, ‘only the beginning of what needs to be done’

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·December 6, 2025·1 min read

OHCHR is calling for more action to end the violence and achieve justice. “While the interim authorities have taken encouraging steps towards addressing past violations, these steps are only the beginning of what needs to be done,” spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheethan told journalists in Geneva. Summary executions and arbitrary killing Since last December, Syria’s interim authorities have established national commissions for transitional justice and missing persons, among other measures. A draft...

Syria: Hope emerges amid ongoing human rights challenges

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·December 4, 2025·4 min read

Coinciding with the anniversary of the collapse of the former regime, “things are improving,” Mohammad Al Nsour, Chief of the Middle East and North Africa Section at OHCHR told UN News. “Every time we go to Damascus, we can see the change.” OHCHR – blocked from operating inside Syria for...

Crackdown on Palestinian civil society is reaching alarming levels, warns UN human rights office

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·December 3, 2025·1 min read

Israeli security forces raided the organisation’s offices in Ramallah and Hebron on 1 December, vandalising property and detaining staff. According to OHCHR, people present in the buildings were blindfolded, handcuffed and made to kneel or lie on the floor for several hours. Eight men were detained. The union (UAWC) is licensed under Palestinian law and has supported farmers and...

UN rights office condemns ‘apparent summary execution’ of two men in the West Bank

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·November 29, 2025·2 min read

The shooting occurred on Thursday in Jenin and was apparently caught on film by a TV channel, OHCHR Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told journalists in Geneva. He said an internal review was announced following the incident, but statements made by a senior Israeli official sought to absolve security forces of responsibility, “raising serious concerns about the credibility of any future review...

Ending violence against women ‘a matter of dignity, equality and human rights’

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·November 20, 2025·2 min read

Instead, she found herself tied to a man who “changed from being kind to being a monster.” He would beat her “with his bare hands,” she said recently. The young mother from Yemen is among the roughly 840 million women worldwide – nearly one in three – who have faced...

World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund

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·November 13, 2025·2 min read

After slamming into the island nation on 9 November with winds of around 185 kilometres per hour (or 115 miles per hour) leaving at least six dead, Super Typhoon Fung-wong hit homes, schools and access to health services across 16 regions, UNICEF reported on Thursday. The archipelago has already been exhausted by multiple...

Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·November 9, 2025·1 min read

“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable atrocities such as summary executions, rape and ethnically motivated violence are continuing within the city.” The statement comes amid mounting reports from UN human rights watchdogs and other...

World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Blooms highlights Rohingya plight

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·November 8, 2025·3 min read

During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met survivors, families of victims and human rights groups in Kyiv. “People spoke of unimaginable suffering – homes destroyed, loved ones killed, and lives upended,” said chairperson Erik Møse. The investigators...

Not just dreams, but rights: Social justice in focus at Doha summit

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·November 6, 2025·3 min read

The Global Coalition for Social Justice Forum brought together ministers, workers’ and employers’ organizations, UN agencies and civil society to accelerate action on poverty eradication, decent work and social inclusion. The gathering came at a moment described as both hopeful and urgent. Since the coalition’s launch in 2023, governments and...