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Since the wake of the Sudanese Civil War in 2023, Sudan has faced a dire humanitarian crisis that has been marked by extreme violence, widespread civilian displacement, and an overwhelming lack of ...
The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday heard sobering briefings on the human rights situations in Ukraine and Gaza, along with a call to confront structural racism and intersectional discrimination ...
Haiti's gangs have gained "near-total control" of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across ...
Recent horrific allegations of sexual abuse in early childhood education and care centres could be a turning point for ...
Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection ...
World / Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past forty years have proven ...
We must recognise that while men make up only a small proportion of childcare workers, they are responsible for the majority of child sexual abuse cases within them.
We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...
Sexual exploitation was closely linked to precarious socioeconomic conditions in empirical research carried out in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, between 2018 and 2019. 23 Children and ...
I watched the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process unfold this year with the kind of attention that comes from knowing what is at stake. As I read through the recommendations made to Kenya by ...
Human Rights Watch is pleased to contribute to the report of the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity regarding the human right to education and the protection against violence ...
The nonprofit Rozan was set up in 1998 with the goal of eradicating domestic violence from Pakistani society.