Syria: Authorize Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid
Syria should urgently agree that humanitarian aid may be brought into the country across all of its borders, including from Turkey. Syria’s allies, including Russia, should press Syria to consent to such transfers, Human Rights Watch said. Donors...
Attacks on health workers ‘unacceptable,’ UN chief declares after Nigeria killings
Health workers vaccinating children against polio in Nigeria.
Kuwait: Rights Setbacks Amid Political Crisis
Human rights conditions deteriorated in Kuwait in 2012 during an ongoing political crisis, Human Rights Watch said today at a news conference for its World Report 2013. The security forces used what appeared to be excessive force to disperse stateless...
Number of Palestinian refugee deaths in Syria increasing, UN agency warns
A Palestinian child.
India: urgent action on violence against women
The SWN strongly condemned this heinous act,demanded that anti-rape laws in India be improved, and called for stricter punishment for rapists. The network also stated that crimes of sexual violence against women cannot be viewed separately from the...
UN humanitarian fund gives over $5 million to assist flood-stricken Mozambique
A family living in the open at Chihaquelane camp away three days after being flooded out of their home in...
European Central Bank welcomes the European Commission’s intention to regulate systemically important reference rates
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank welcomes the European Commission’s intention to introduce further legislation regulating systemically important reference rates. In its response to the Commission’s consultation on the regulation of...
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe calls for more co-operation to prevent human trafficking in Mediterranean
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) called for greater dialogue and co-operation among Mediterranean States at a seminar today on human trafficking in the region.
Iraqi Kurdistan: Free Speech Under Attack
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) should stop arbitrarily detaining journalists, activists, and political opposition figures, and end its prosecution of journalists for insulting or defaming public figures. The Asayish – the...
Disruption of sanitation services in Syria putting children’s health at risk – UNICEF
Tanker trucks supply water to a housing complex in Adra, an industrial area northeast of Damascus, Syria...
