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At a recent ministerial conference in Paris on foreign feminist policy, celebration of hard-won gains in the field ran up against a disheartening canon of well-financed threats and efforts against women’s rights and gender policies worldwide. The state of the …
China and Russia have been actively trying to block United Nations scrutiny into violations through obscure budget talks, according to a new nongovernmental organization investigation. The long-running maneuver now threatens to hollow out the UN human rights pillar amid a …
For several weeks, an unprecedented movement has been shaking Morocco: GenZ212. Driven by digitally connected, determined and fiercely independent youth, it has become one of the most significant social mobilizations since the February 20 Movement, which occurred in 2011, alongside …
Few people outside the orbit of practitioners and scholars of international human rights law have heard of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, or WGAD. Yet, this organ of the Human Rights Council, established in 1991, is the …
Syria’s new President Ahmad al-Sharaa will mark his United Nations debut with a Sept. 24 address to the General Assembly, pleading for patience and support as he steers his war-ravaged country through steep domestic unrest and regional security challenges. His …
Welcome back to our weekly summary after a pause in August. We’ve made changes to our headline and produced a more streamlined format for faster reading, though this issue is on the longish side. Let us know what you think. …
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, is arguably the organization’s most outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. An Italian international-law scholar appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in May 2022, Albanese has …
Over stock footage of an African city and people smiling, an American man’s calm voice says, “A stronger future begins with stronger families.” Posted to Instagram in June by the Mormon Church in West Africa, the video features images of …
Emeka* said the lecturer called them “childish” if they resisted his advances. He would put on pornography and force them to watch, then begin touching himself. Emeka recalled those nights in vivid detail. Three boys, all under 18, were living …
SAINT-ÉTIENNE, France — As the grandson of Lucien Neuwirth, the French parliamentarian who championed the 1967 law legalizing contraception in France, I feel a deep, personal and civic responsibility to speak out against an unfolding international scandal — one that …
Two weeks after the United States imposed sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the UN has invoked her immunity and called on the US to …
The Trump administration’s reckless inclination to withdraw from United Nations institutions is damaging United States foreign influence. Even after just a few months, the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is worth taking a closer look at …
Irene Khan’s job is hard. As the United Nations special rapporteur on protecting the right to freedom of expression, she must navigate the fine line between freedom of expression and hate speech, while also defending independent media. Khan shared with …
Jorge Millán’s home in the small town of El Maitén in Argentina’s Patagonia was raided in February this year. “It was total madness,” said Millán, who belongs to the Indigenous Mapuche community and works at the local radio station, La …
This Week @UN: Israel “weaponizes” aid in Gaza; a merger of 2 UN agencies?; reining in killer robots. Plus: Tough talk on UN80 reforms; peacekeeping ministerial in Berlin; Yemen calm; Syrians return home; Colombians fighting again. Please follow us on …
