On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for concerted and quick action to combat a surge in global food insecurity. The number of severely food insecure people had doubled in two years from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million, he said during a U.N. meeting on global hunger. More than half a million people are […...
More than 160 million children are engaged in child labor globally, according to a new report released Wednesday. The International Labor Organization and U.N. children’s agency UNICEF warn in the report that without relief strategies, child labor could rise by 8.9 million by year end. The increase is driven by higher poverty and increased vul...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US city of Minneapolis and its police department have engaged in an illegal “pattern or practice of race discrimination,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The department launched the study just days after then-police officer Derek Chauvin killed Ge...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Mali’s public prosecutor has announced the launch of an investigation into a mass grave discovered near the camp formerly occupied by French forces in Gossi, north of Mali. On Wednesday April 27, the Malian army claimed to have discovered a mass grave near a military base left by the French army in […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have accused the UN refugee agency UNRWA of procrastinating the reconstruction of their homes destroyed during last year’s Israeli war. This came in a protest organized by Palestinian factions outside the UNRWA office in Gaza City. “I have the right to safe housing,” and &#...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A long battle of Palestinians with Syrian backgrounds has concluded, with those coming from the war-torn Middle Eastern nation winning protection rights under the UN Convention in a European country. Ghada al-Rayan, a Palestinian-Syrian human rights defender, told Anadolu Agency that the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerla...
Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested 14 Muslims, according to The Wire. Muslims were resisting a RSS militia attack on their mosque on Saturday. A procession led by the Hindu militia Bajrang Dal attacked the mosque in the Delhi suburb of Jahangirpuri. According to area resident Salman Khan, they “tried to wave […]
On Wednesday, ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology for its predecessors’ role in the Atlantic slave trade during the 18th and 19th centuries. The bank worked with the International Institute of Social History to investigate its two predecessors, Hope & Co. and Mees & Zoonen. Researchers found Hope & Co.’s prof...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Sixteen Palestinian journalists are languishing in Israeli prisons, according to an Arab human rights group on Sunday. In a statement, the Beirut-based Journalists’ Support Committee said eight journalists have already been slapped with jail terms by Israeli authorities. “Four journalists are held under Israel...
On Monday, the Tunisian Human Rights League condemned military trials being held for civilians. Anadolu news agency reports that the group called for the acceleration of revising relevant laws, including the Terrorism Law. That legislation has resulted in journalists being prosecuted with impunity, as well as restrictions on human rights acti...
