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5 days agoTop Palestinian Children's Rights Group Shutters After Being Targeted By Israel
Defense for Children International-Palestine ceased operations due to Israel's attacks and restrictions on human rights organizations, impacting advocacy for Palestinian children's rights.
Social justice
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5 days agoDon't look at who voted to call the slave trade the gravest crime', look at who didn't | Kenneth Mohammed
The Ghana-led UN resolution on slavery highlights global disparities in acknowledging historical injustices, with significant opposition from Western nations.
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UK politics
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4 weeks agoUK complicit in desecration of international law in Gaza, says Corbyn-led tribunal
An unofficial tribunal chaired by Jeremy Corbyn concludes the Labour government failed to prevent genocide in Gaza by not ending arms exports, intelligence sharing, and trade with Israel.
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4 weeks agoAnother 5 Palestinians killed in Israel's genocide in Gaza amid wider war
Israeli forces continue daily attacks on Gaza killing Palestinians, while humanitarian conditions deteriorate due to sandstorms, border closures, and lack of medical evacuation access amid regional conflict.
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4 weeks agoDrone attack on market in Sudan kills 11, as air war civilian toll mounts
Drone strikes in Sudan's ongoing conflict have killed over 200 civilians in populated areas including markets, schools, and hospitals within days, with both armed forces and paramilitary groups deploying increasingly powerful aerial weapons.
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1 month agoSyrian who fled to UK charged with crimes against humanity over violent crackdown
A former Syrian intelligence officer has been charged with murder and torture as crimes against humanity in England and Wales, marking the first such prosecution under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.
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World politics
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1 month agoThe Guardian view on the Iran war and international law: it's worse than a mistake; it's a crime | Editorial
Western nations apply inconsistent standards in condemning military aggression, loudly criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine while remaining largely silent about US and Israeli military actions against Iran and Lebanon, undermining claims of universal international law.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month agoWhy international law is still the world's best defence
The post-World War II international legal order faces erosion from ultranationalism, great-power rivalries, and norm violations, risking a return to force-based politics where power supersedes principle.
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1 month agoGordon Brown calls for international criminal court for crimes against children
An international criminal court for crimes against children should be established to protect schools as safe havens with the same legal status as hospitals during armed conflicts.
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2 months agoPrisoner exchanges are not peace, but they are human - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
A large prisoner exchange returned 314 POWs, reuniting families and freeing unlawfully prosecuted Ukrainians, but such swaps do not indicate genuine diplomatic progress.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago'Hallmark of genocide' found in Sudan's el-Fasher UN
RSF's capture of el-Fasher constituted planned, coordinated actions with hallmarks of genocide: ethnically targeted killings, sexual violence, siege-induced starvation, and calls to eliminate non-Arab communities.
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoAfter years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel | Janine di Giovanni
State terror uses arbitrary detention, torture, killings and fear, justified by rhetoric of security and order, to silence dissent and control populations.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months agoSudan's people endure horror and hell' in war, says UN rights chief
Sudan's war has inflicted extreme suffering, displacement, acute food insecurity, increasing militarisation with foreign-supplied weapons, and allegations of war crimes requiring accountability.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months agoUN, US condemn RSF drone strikes on aid deliveries in famine-hit Sudan
The Sudan Doctors Network calls the attack in North Kordofan a blatant violation of international humanitarian law'. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a series of drone attacks targeting humanitarian aid convoys and fuel trucks across North Kordofan, killing at least one person and wounding several others, officials and medical organisations said. The North Kordofan state government condemned Friday's strikes on a convoy linked to the World Food Programme (WFP), urging the international community and United Nations bodies to impose sanctions
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1 month agoA Critical Legal and Moral Review of Ukrainian Atrocities - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Minimising Russian atrocities under the guise of 'peace talks' risks whitewashing harm and undermines credible mediation in the Ukraine war.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months agoUK sanctions paramilitary group leaders over atrocities in Sudan
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