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CIVICUS discusses the criminalisation of dissent in the Philippines with Kyle A Domequil, spokesperson of the Free Tacloban 5 Network, a campaign supporting journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, human rights defender Marielle Domequil and their co-accused ...

SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal, February 27 (IPS) - When you walk through the streets of Senegal's cities, you notice them almost immediately: young boys in worn clothes, clutching plastic cans or tin bowls, weaving between cars and pedestrians to ask for ...

Reports on Friday that major cities in Afghanistan have been bombed by the Pakistan military in a new escalation between the two countries have raised fears for civilians already struggling under the harsh rule of the de facto Taliban authorities.

Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people are trying to overcome deep-rooted trauma and rebuild what has been lost.

South Sudan was the focus of debate in the UN Human Rights Council on Friday as escalating violence and political tensions - alongside a massive humanitarian emergency and war in neighbouring Sudan - threaten efforts to achieve lasting peace.

A 2018 agreement that aims to strengthen international cooperation on migration management must become reality, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday in New York.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk warned on Friday that the Epstein and Gisèle Pellicot scandals are an illustration of intensifying threats to women and girls forced to suffer in silence.

GENEVA, February 27 (IPS) - The situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is a human-made disaster.The report before you sets out events between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025 that show Israel's utter disregard for human rights in Gaza and ...

KAMPALA, February 26 (IPS) - When people ordinarily think about sexual violence, it's of the rape of women by men. In Uganda, as in other countries, activists say men are also victims of sexual violence perpetrated by women, though males remain ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday appealed for dialogue between Afghanistan and Pakistan amid border clashes and deadly airstrikes, while condemning ever harsher "apartheid" edicts issued by the Afghan de facto authorities that continue ...