February 7, 2026 UNHCR A series of new Israeli operations and settlement plans in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, risk seriously undermining the viability of a Palestinian state and the realisation of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination,” the UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told the bi-weekly press conference in Geneva today.

February 2, 2026 Dan Sabbagh  The Guardian An authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months has concluded that international law seeking to limit the effects of war is at breaking point, with more than 100,000 civilians killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity. Sudanese families displaced from El Fasher reach out for food aid. Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP

© UNRCO Iran Tehran, the capital of Iran. January 11, 2026 UN News Service In a statement issued on Friday, Volker Türk said he was “deeply disturbed” by the violence reported over nearly two weeks of demonstrations, stressing that those responsible for any violations must be held to account in line with international human rights standards.

Jannuary 9, 2026 Prof. Juan Cole The UN Office of Human Rights, headed by Volker Türk, on Wednesday issued an  extensive report on the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank in which it for the first time described Israeli policies there as Apartheid. The executive summary says, “The report warns that Israel is violating international law requiring States to prohibit and eradicate racial segregation and apartheid.” Photo of predominantly Palestinian Silwan

December 7, 2025 By Michael Schmitt , Tess Bridgeman  and Ryan Goodman The Sept. 2 attack on a boat allegedly carrying drugs has sparked widespread discussion regarding the targetability of the 11 people aboard, including two who survived the first strike, and of the drugs themselves.  Given the administration’s lack of transparency, especially from the Department of Defense, there is widespread speculation about what really happened in this first, highly controversial Operat

December 6, 2025 Seham Tantesh  in Gaza, Julian Borger  and Emma Graham-Harrison  in Jerusalem When Jumaa and Fadi Abu Assi went to look for firewood their parents thought they would be safe. They were just young boys, aged nine and 10 and, after all, a ceasefire had been declared in Gaza . Their mother, Hala Abu Assi, was making tea in the family’s tent in Khan Younis when she heard an explosion, a missile fired by an Israeli drone. She ran to the scene – but it was too late

December 3, 2025 UNHCR GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned as intensifying attacks on villages and the rapid spillover of the conflict into previously safe districts force tens of thousands of people to flee across northern Mozambique, with close to 100,000 displaced in the past fortnight alone. As needs rise at unprecedented speed, the capacity of humanitarian and government actors is not keeping pace, and collective efforts remain insufficient to mee

December 3, 2025 UN News Service The President of the UN General Assembly called on Tuesday for greater action to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people and a two-State solution with Israel.        Annalena Baerbock was speaking at an Assembly plenary meeting where countries debated a resolution that affirms the UN’s responsibility for the question of Palestine. “For 78 years the Palestinian people have been denied their inalienable rights – in particular, their right to

November 28, 2025 We – France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom – strongly condemn the massive increase of settler violence against Palestinian civilians and call for stability in the West Bank. Destabilising activity risks undermining the success of the 20 Point Plan for Gaza and prospects for long-term peace and security. The number of attacks has reached new heights, with 264 attacks in October according to OCHA, the largest number of settlers’ attacks in a single month

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...