News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 78
The Risk of Famine Looms Throughout Multiple Sudanese Counties
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 (IPS) - Over the course of 2025, the food security situation in Sudan has taken a considerable turn for the worst. Compounded by the Sudanese Civil War, millions of civilians face alarming levels of food insecurity and are at risk of experiencing famine. Humanitarian experts have described the situation in Sudan as being the worst hunger crisis in the world today.
A Step Closer to Justice For Slain Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Jun 16 (IPS) - “We didn’t want revenge. We want justice—justice for Daphne and for the her stories.”
El Salvador: Bukeles Authoritarianism Goes Global
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 16 (IPS) - At a White House meeting, presidents Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump exchanged praises and joked about mass incarceration while discussing an unprecedented agreement: the USA would pay El Salvador US$6 million a year to house deportees – of any nationality, potentially including US citizens – in its Centre for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), a notorious mega-prison. This agreement marked the evolution of Bukele’s authoritarian model from a domestic experiment to an exportable commodity for strongmen worldwide.
DR Congo: Human rights violations could amount to war crimes, UN experts say
- UN News
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwandan-backed rebels, Congolese troops, and allied militias have all committed human rights abuses, some possibly amounting to war crimes, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva on Monday.
UNHCR forced to make deep cuts, despite rising needs worldwide
- UN News
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) announced on Monday that it is cutting global staffing costs by around 30 per cent, following a comprehensive review of its activities, spending, staffing and structure, prompted by major funding shortfalls.
‘Behind each crisis, people are suffering,’ Türk tells Human Rights Council
- UN News
Eighty years after the United Nations was established to end war, uphold fundamental human rights and promote justice and international law, those founding principles are increasingly under threat, the UN’s human rights chief warned on Monday.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS: Live updates for 16 June
- UN News
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk on Monday condemned the violence and echoed wider calls for a negotiated end to the attacks. Meanwhile in Gaza, aid workers report that mobile communications networks continue to be cut in the shattered enclave. We'll be covering these developments and more across the UN system and beyond today, thanks for joining us. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here.
Broadcasting Hope: Women’s Voice Radio Helps Afghan Teen Reclaim Her Future
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jun 13 (IPS) - Mehrangiz is a sixteen-year-old girl from Badakhshan, a province in the northeastern Afghanistan famed for its rubies, jewels, and a land of love and beauty.
Victims of Japan's Eugenic Protection Law Sterilized and Mutilated Without Consent
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 13 (IPS) - Victims of Japan's costly Eugenic Protection Law took to the stage sharing their life stories, offering their tragedies of sterilization and mutilation, in return for the hopes of “a society without discrimination”. At a side event on International Sharing of the Experiences and Lessons of Japan's Former Eugenic Protection Law held on June 10th, The Conference of Parties on the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities Discussed the struggle for Anti eugenic ideology. Hosted by the Japan Disability Forum along with several legal defence teams for the victims, an outline of ideology, policy, and retribution was displayed, in an attempt to fight against “eugenics-based discrimination”.
Societies grappling with a ‘silent but growing’ prison crisis
- UN News
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform.
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