The United Nations on Friday launched a new initiative to safeguard victims of terror attacks from online harm and retraumatisation, with its primary aim being to ensure a victim-centric approach to building a safer environment for internet users. Friday, i.e, August 21, marks the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of [...]

The UN warned on Friday that the global decrease in funding for humanitarian aid has forced aid programmes and facilities in Somalia to shut down and is resulting in increasingly severe consequences for Somali children. According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)’s spokesperson, James Elder, aid cuts closed doors to healthcare and deprived people, including [...]

ICE deported over 160 individuals to Haiti on Thursday in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the administrative repeal of temporary protected status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitians, despite pervasive gang violence throughout the country. The charter flight landed in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, instead of capital Port-au-Prince, as gangs [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday struck down a ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries. Judge Jeannette Vargas wrote that the order, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was “patently unlawful” and exceeded his power under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Thursday that escalating settler violence and aggressive settler expansion in the occupied West Bank is driving the displacement of Palestinians, with the organization attributing the rise of settler extremism to Israeli authorities. HRW conducted investigations over April and May 2026 within 7 Palestinian West Bank communities. The organization expressed [...]

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Thursday that 2.1 million Palestinian civilians are in need of shelter, essential household items, and protection from airstrikes and gunfire. OCHA reported that Palestinian civilians are being “killed, injured or otherwise affected by air strikes, shelling and gunfire”. On Wednesday, a 13-year-old girl [...]

Amnesty International on Friday issued a call for authorities and forces affiliated with Hamas in the occupied Gaza Strip to put an end to extrajudicial executions of suspected collaborators with Israel. In recent months, security officials in Hamas’ military wing – the Al-Qassam Brigades – publicly announced the summary execution of one man for collaborating [...]

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association on Thursday sued Canada and Manitoba for the province’s “extremely underfunded” criminal legal aid, arguing that the underfunding violates the right to the presumption of innocence, fair trial, and is discriminatory against Indigenous people in effect. The lawsuit argued that the financial eligibility criteria for criminal legal aid was unduly [...]

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher on Wednesday warned that the recent rise in the usage of drones posed a dangerous risk for aid operations, emphasizing that international humanitarian law, which prohibits attacks on humanitarian workers and civilians, continues to apply to drone warfare regardless of how sophisticated or remote the weapons become. Fletcher, the UN [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Friday found Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and their now-disbanded organization, the Hong Kong Alliance, guilty of a national security offense under the Beijing-imposed National Security Law (NSL). Three NSL-designated judges unanimously ruled that the defendants’ advocacy, through peaceful June 4 annual vigils, for “the end of one-party [...]