Tag: gender-based violence

(New York) – United Nations member countries should use negotiations on the “Pact for the Future” to commit to strengthening human rights, including promoting economic...

(New York) – The government of Trinidad and Tobago should urgently bring home Trinidadian children and their mothers imprisoned in Iraq because of their...

(Beirut) – An Israeli strike on an emergency and relief center in south Lebanon on March 27, 2024, was an unlawful attack on civilians...

Ransomware poses a major threat to the UK. Paying ransoms to the criminal groups responsible for these attacks sustains the threat and does not...

The head of Italian utility Iren and the president of Liguria, a northwestern region, were arrested on corruption charges, prosecutors in Genoa announced on...

The governor of the Liguria region in Italy, which includes the port city of Genoa, was placed under house arrest on Tuesday amid a...

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to submit its views and recommendations for consideration by the United Nations secretary-general in response to Resolution 78/241...

LAFAYETTE, La. – Forrest Kevin Dwayne Matthews, 39, of Lafayette, Louisiana, has been sentenced on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown.  Matthews...

Advocates of media freedom in the Philippines got some good news within days of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. On April 29,...

(Jerusalem) – Israel is contravening the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) legally binding orders by obstructing the entry of lifesaving aid and services into...

BOSTON – An associate of the violent Boston gang Cameron Street was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking. Michael Lopes, a/k/a...

RIVERSIDE, California – A San Gabriel Valley man was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for hiring a hitman in an attempt to...

DULUTH, Minn. – A Red Lake woman has been charged with murder, arson, and child neglect following the death of two young children on...

Last week, millions of people in Southeast Asia grappled with a record-setting heatwave that triggered thousands of school closures, put unprecedented pressure on power...