November 15, 2025 This is House Resolution 876, Introduced on November 13, 2025 Whereas the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948; Whereas the United States played a key role in drafting the Genocide Convention, ratified the convention on November 5, 1988, and remains a party to the convention today; Whereas, under the Genocide Convention, the crime of g

November 11, 2025 Philippe Lazzarini After two years of brutal warfare in Gaza, a fragile ceasefire – the first phase of US president Donald Trump’s 20-point plan – offers some respite to an exhausted population. For my Unrwa colleagues on the ground in Gaza, the constant fear of being killed by bombs and guns may have abated, but there is still much to worry about – access to shelter, food and clean water remains challenging, and winter is approaching fast. Palestinians rid

November 10, 2025 Olivier de Frouville  and Julian Fernandez Published on November 7, 2025 Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided” when it came to what was going on inside the Palestinian territory. In response to this misleading depiction, a group of academics specializing in international law and international criminal law decided to organize a letter this summer that would outline the legal analysis upon which the i

November 9, 2025 Nikita Mazurov , Jonah Valdez                YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

November 7, 2025 UN News Service From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests.         The impacts affect livelihoods, and fuel displacement as well as ongoing instability.  Moreover, they can linger even after the fighting has ended. © IOM/Raber Aziz Members of a family displaced by drought and conflict rest outside their tent.

October 31, 2025 UN News Service Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council , the UN’s top relief official Tom Fletcher said “women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and killed – with utter impunity,” adding: “ We cannot hear the screams, but – as we sit here today – the horror is continuing. ” © Avaaz/Giles Clarke Tens of thousands of civilians – including many women and children – have been killed in Sudan since conflict erupted in April 2023. (file photo)

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Watt The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian. These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average. Almost 60% of billionaire investments are in ‘high climate-impact sectors’, such as mining o

October 28 Carlos Mureithi   Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city  in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend.

October 28, 2025 Brett Wilkins The Gaza Tribunal’s final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide. The Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience delivers its final statement on October 26, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Gaza Tribunal)

October 27, 2025 Ariel Gold After two years of relentless bombardment, what Israel’s military has left behind in Gaza will continue to claim lives and maim the innocent. A Palestinian boy walks past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qatta / AFP via Getty Images)

September 29, 2025 UN News Service The past three months have seen an increase in Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank...

September 12, 2025 Joseph Gedeon  in Washington Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel ...

September 10, 2025 Jon Duffy The United States has crossed a dangerous line. Last week, an American military platform destroyed a small...

September 9, 2025 Kathy Kelly n his last minutes of freedom before Israel Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a...

September 6, 2025 UNHCR  Rival forces in Sudan are deliberately targeting the devastated nation’s civilian population, committing...

September 6, 2025 Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Spending more on defence will be pointless unless western governments also tackle the...

September 3, 2025 Kirsten Stade While recent heat waves were causing thousands of deaths , the Trump administration was busy dismantling...

August 31, 2025 UN News Service In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, *Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from...

August 28, 2025 By Devika Hovell Imagine that, overnight, the President of the United States orders sanctions against sitting Supreme...

August 23, 2025 Stephen Prager Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy...