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The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found that famine has spread…
The approved 2025 regular budget (RB) of $3.72 billion is about $1 million more than what the Secretary-General proposed to…
A federal appeals court Dec. 23 issued a ruling reinstating reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), with the…
(ECNS) — The first chartered flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, successfully landed at…
Brazilian authorities have halted the construction of a factory for Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD, saying workers lived in…
The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under the government of…
More than 24.6 million people, or half of Sudan’s population, experience high levels of severe food insecurity, according to the…
(Berlin, December 24, 2024) – Police and other security forces have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters in Georgia’s capital,…
China’s Defense Ministry is firmly opposed to and strongly condemned the latest United States military aid and arms sales to…
ACTSA intern Puleng Motaung reports back on the 7th Human Rights summit of Southern Defenders Being at the Southern Human…
On December 20, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) condemned the Salvadoran state in the case of Beatriz and…
At the end of December, a combined UN convoy of nine trucks safely reached the people of Beit Hanoun in…
The number of cholera infections and deaths increased sharply in November compared to the same period in 2023, with a…
২২ ডিসেম্বর, ২০২৪: ২০২৩ সালের ২৯ আগস্ট ধামরাই এর নিজ বাসা থেকে র্যাব কর্তৃক গুম হন ইলেক্ট্রিক মিস্ত্রি রহমতউল্লাহ। তাঁর…
It is time to step up demands for the Chinese government to release human rights defenders detained after attending a…
This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of…
EQS Group acquired OneTrust’s ethics and compliance business division and Berlin-based sustainability software firm Daato Technologies, the Munich-based cloud software…
Nigeria is already the world’s largest producer of cassava, and the country is well positioned to be world’s largest cassava…
A state of emergency remains in effect across the island nation, with a seven-day dusk-to-dawn curfew in parts of Port…
Video evidence indicates Hezbollah repeatedly uses inherently inaccurate weapons in attacks Three strikes killing eight civilians and injuring at least…
Ursula von der Leyen knows that the EU’s reputation as a credible actor for human rights and international law is…
El Salvador: A thousand days into the state of emergency. “Security” at the expense of human rights.
Grave human rights violations under El Salvador’s state of emergency point to a systematic, widespread pattern of state abuse that…
Members of the 2024 cohort of our Global South Defenders program. This opportunity allows human rights defenders from countries in…
Since 6 December 2024, political prisoners in Jau Prison have faced relentless and systematic abuses following the death of Husain…
Rıfat Roni has spent more than a decade as an official court interpreter facilitating communication for Kurdish speakers in legal…
CCI staff share recent surveys, reports and analysis on risk, compliance, governance, infosec and leadership issues. Share details of your…
A team from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Syria visited former prisons and detention centers, including the…
“We’re not pushing for large-scale returns. Frankly, communities just aren’t ready to take in displaced people and bring them home…It…
Louise Waterridge of the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said: “The world is not seeing what is happening to…
In a new report, the United Nations Office for Human Rights (OHCHR) details the devastating humanitarian situation unfolding in El…
Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in…
On December 16, 2024, the European Union (EU) adopted its 15th package of sanctions against Russia in response to its…
Herbs and spices have been used in cooking for centuries. They add flavour, aroma and colour to foods and have…
Davies, a professional services and technology firm serving insurance markets, acquired Premier Claims Management (PCM), a Santa Ana, California-based provider…
December 18, 2024Technical StaffFraud and corruption are pervasive issues that undermine trust, erode social and economic development, and destabilize communities.…
It’s getting harder to prosecute federal corruption crimes in the United States. In a recent case called Snyder v. United…
Speaking to correspondents via video link on Thursday, OCHA officials highlighted the harsh reality facing the more than 2 million…
That’s the warning from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking to reporters in New York on Thursday morning. Speaking on…
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at a regular briefing Thursday that bakeries in Aleppo were nearly full, “but…
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met with Ho Iat Seng, the outgoing chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative…
In an update, the United Nations Aid Coordination Office OCHA stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure will not stop. “Particularly…
Tragically, this year saw the highest number of migrant deaths on the move ever. “These challenges are exacerbated by the…
The China-U.S. financial working group held its seventh meeting in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, on Sunday and…
Robert Petit, head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Investigate Serious Crimes in Syria (IIIM), told reporters in…
A new decade of action starting in January will build on the past decade’s progress in advancing human rights for…
Play Video (Beirut) – The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area…
Over the years, President Xi Jinping has been deeply concerned about the development of Macao and its young people. In…
Images taken at a school in Khan Younis showed where a single shell appeared to have landed on the concrete…
The process of transformation and progress toward democracy in any country necessitates implementing reforms within official state institutions, including the…
Rapid Support Forces fighters and allied militias have raped scores of women and girls, including in the context of sexual…