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Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet the West Bank is facing a crisis. Salary shortages have pushed healthcare providers to strike, supplies are running low and deteriorating roads are limiting access. The international community must act now.
Healthcare under pressure: challenges facing the West Bank Read More »
Given ongoing EU failure to condemn outright not only Israel’s genocide in Gaza and invasion of Lebanon but US aggression against Iran, this blog calls for the self-styled global champion of human rights to take an independent stand against the whims of Washington’s foreign policy.
EU foreign policy: double standards and the price of strategic dependence on the US Read More »
The armed conflict in Colombia requires community-based responses as well as context-specific, intersectional and state-supported strategies to effectively protect human rights in marginalized territories.
The armed conflict in Colombia’s peripheral areas: a human rights perspective Read More »
A review of survivor women in the context of the Beirut Port explosion in 2020 shows how neglecting human rights worsens harm, while rights-based preparedness can turn tragedy into resilience, truth, accountability, and the pursuit of lasting justice.
The Person She Was Is Dead: emergencies and lessons for rights-based preparedness Read More »
The draft Palestinian Interim Constitution reflects a unique constitutional process shaped less by internal mobilisation than by international recognition and reform pressures. While it provides important human rights guarantees, concerns remain on executive dominance, legitimacy of the drafting process, and institutional balance.
The environmental cost of the war against Iran requires us to confront its estimated carbon emissions and how military emissions escape our current accounting. This is a reminder that a switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy is not just about addressing climate change, but also the economy and global security.
A potential off-ramp for fossil fuels? Read More »
The war between the United States, Israel and Iran may appear geographically distant from Africa. Yet its consequences are being felt across the continent. For millions of Africans from the Horn of Africa to Uganda, Sudan, the Gulf of Guinea and South Africa, among others, the conflict is not simply a geopolitical crisis. It is rapidly becoming a human rights crisis driven by inflation, food insecurity, disrupted trade, and heightened regional instability.
How US-Israel attack on Iran is impacting Africa Read More »
Western Sahara illustrates how international law’s self-determination norm is being hollowed out. An examination of UN Security Council’s practice and Resolution 2797 (2025) shows a shift from referendum-based decolonization to status-quo management, privileging autonomy and stability over rights and justice.
The Nasir hostilities and their aftermath risk the collapse of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan, with imminent return to another wave of civil war, which will jeopardise human rights and spark humanitarian crises.
Rape in war is a deliberate strategy not a tragic byproduct. Political inaction, legal loopholes and failed peace processes make leaders complicit. Protecting women means prosecuting perpetrators, empowering communities and rejecting silence. The time for impunity is over.
Weaponisation of rape: women and girls in African conflict zones Read More »