human rights

• Lebanon: Desperate scenes at Syrian border after Israeli airstrikes
• Nuclear legacy in Marshall Islands in spotlight Human Rights Council 
• WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

• Victims of deadly Lebanon escalation describe fleeing ‘total destruction’
• In Ukraine, aid teams report that another apartment block has been hit by Russian shelling in the city of Kharkiv
• More justice is needed for people of African descent who’ve died in police custody, human rights chief Türk underlines. 

• UN chief ‘extremely concerned’ over Lebanon escalation
• Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured at scale by Russian captors, says UN Human Rights office
• Brazil eliminates elephantiasis as a public health problem WHO

• Lebanon crisis: over one million people flee deadly escalation
• Algerian court urged to reverse ‘abusive sentence’ against poet
• Condemnation for Ukraine hospitals attacks: OCHA 

• Middle East crisis: No let up in spiralling violence in Gaza, Israel and Lebanon
• At least one in seven youngsters have a mental disorder, says WHO’s Tedros
• Belarus authorities quell ‘all avenues of dissent’, Human Rights Council hears 

Haiti is facing a “catastrophic and cataclysmic” human rights situation according to the UN’s designated expert on rights issues in the Caribbean island nation, William O’Neill.

Attacks by gangs, executions, kidnappings for ransom, violence against women – including  rape – as well as corruption, inmates dying in jail and a paralyzed judicial system, are just some of the rights challenges the country is facing.

• HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa choked by growing debt crisis: UNAIDS
• Independent rights panel expressed deep concern at Palestinian children held by Israel
• Russian attacks on Ukraine power stations set to push 500,000 people out of country 

• Satellites and AI offer hope for climate change solutions: WHO
• Southeast Asia Typhoon Yagi impacts millions of children, warns UNICEF
• Refugee agency urges end to arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers

• Venezuela: Rights probe points to ‘unprecedented’ repression of critics
• At least 1,800 people have died in custody in Myanmar jails since coup, says OHCHR
• UN aid teams warn of increasing challenges delivering relief in war-torn Ukraine

• Nigeria floods: humanitarians ramp up emergency response
• Sanitary disaster in Gaza ‘worsening by the day’, warns UNRWA
• Gaza’s civil society activists have nowhere safe to work, warn top rights experts