Lisa Schlein

UN cites anarchy in Gaza Strip as obstacle to humanitarian aid

A breakdown in law and order in Gaza is obstructing efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

Hunger drives starving Sudanese to seek refuge abroad

World Health Organization finds Sudan is facing its worst levels of acute food insecurity since start of 14-month conflict

Forced labor in North Korea cited as possible crime against humanity

UN report says people forced to work in intolerable conditions, placed under constant surveillance, regularly beaten

DR Congo faces catastrophic health, humanitarian crisis

A surge in violence by armed groups is leading to mass displacement, widespread disease, gender-based violence and severe mental trauma

Sudan's warring parties in 2nd day of UN-mediated cease-fire talks

Negotiations aim to protect civilians, provide humanitarian assistance to millions devastated by conflict

UN: Libya remains mired in crisis as political leaders violate human rights to cling to power 

Libyan authorities use arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances and detention-related violations to quell political dissent 

Hundreds of Ukrainian children evacuated from hospital hit by Russian missile

Probable ‘direct hit’ by a Russian missile kills dozens in Kyiv

Human rights expert slams global arms trade that bolsters Myanmar military crackdown

The billion-dollar arms trade is ‘helping sustain the junta’s campaign of violence against civilians’ across Myanmar

Refugees, migrants face horrors while crossing African continent

Refugees and migrants using land routes in Africa increasingly encounter insurgent groups, militias, human traffickers and other criminal actors

Türk cast doubts Venezuela’s elections will be free and fair

The U.N. rights commissioner says government stifles dissent by the arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance of its perceived opponents

Rights panel bemoans Syria as lawless, with fragmented society

A UN report says its people are faced with a devastating humanitarian situation that has ‘no end in sight’

Refugee flight from Sudan surging as war rages, funds dry up

UNHCR is appealing for $1.5 billion, up from $1.4 billion in January, to assist and protect up to 3.3 million Sudanese refugees

UN report condemns executions, hijab crackdown in Iran

At least 834 people were executed in 2023, a 43% increase from the previous year

UN rapporteur: Fundamental freedoms systematically repressed in Eritrea

Widespread use of arbitrary and incommunicado detention, along with enforced disappearance persist unabated in Eritrea, UN official finds

Investigators: Disregard for human rights, law drives crisis in Sudan

Rights experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of driving the country into a humanitarian abyss

Spending on nuclear weapons hit $91.4 billion in 2023, watchdog finds

Money is wasted, ICAN finds, because nuclear-armed states agree a nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought

Human rights violations, abuse threaten reconciliation, peace in Ethiopia

UN rights chief calls for concrete measures to halt violations endangering reconciliation

Conflict, persecution, climate crisis drive surge in global forced displacement

Both Israel, Hamas accused of possible war crimes in hostage release operation

Hundreds of Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed or injured during an Israeli military operation Saturday that secured the release of four hostages

Climate crisis creates a health crisis, WHO reports

Climate change seriously affects the health of pregnant women, newborns, children, adolescents and older people, the WHO says