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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) affirmed Italy’s right to recover a millennia-old bronze sculpture from a Malibu museum on Thursday in a case that weighed the importance of a nation’s cultural heritage against fundamental property rights. The sculpture, Victorious Youth, dates back to 300-100 BCE. While its creator has not been positively identified, [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Wednesday their preliminary investigations confirm 97 journalists and media workers are estimated to be among the victims since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas. The investigation also said 25 journalists were arrested and four are missing. CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna [...]

Officers from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) entered and made arrests at Columbia University on Tuesday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied an academic building, which police cleared. This is the latest escalation in an ongoing demonstration that gained worldwide attention and sparked similar actions on campuses across the US after NYPD officers forcibly [...]

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric provided an update on Friday on the recent UN investigation into UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East (UNWRA) staff, saying that one case has been closed and three suspended. Eight staff members remain under investigation.  The investigation came after Israeli claimed that UNWRA staff in Gaza [...]

Members of the Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency response group in Palestine, called on the United Nations and the international community to conduct an independent investigation of mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals in a press conference on Thursday. The officials also called for a halt to the fighting and for a surge [...]

A group of 120 protesters were arrested at a pro-Palestinian encampment Monday in front of New York University’s business school, according to NYU student newspaper Washington Square News. The arrests come as Columbia University, citing safety, shifted its classes on its Morningside, Manhattan campus to a hybrid online/in-person format after a protest encampment there became [...]

The US Department of State released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on Monday, amidst the seventy-fifth anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or UDHR. The report emphasized “several new commitments, including to renew investments around the world in democracy and human rights, to help protect human rights defenders online, [...]

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, Vyacheslav Gladkov, revealed on Tuesday in a Telegram video message that 120 civilians have been killed and 651 individuals injured in the area since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. The Belgorod region is located on the border between Russia and Ukraine. In the video message, Gladkov lamented [...]

Axios reported Saturday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battalion “Netzah Yehuda” for human rights violations in the West Bank, according to three informed sources. The battalion is a special IDF unit mainly comprised of ultra-Orthodox soldiers. According to the report, the sanctions [...]

On April 14, Iran delivered a calculated response to Israel’s recent attacks, marking the first time the Islamic Republic has struck Israel from its own territory some 1,900 kilometers away. In the 13 days that have passed since Israel’s assault on the consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, tensions in the Middle [...]