The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) restated evacuation orders urging residents of Northern Gaza to flee to the South to allow for military operations in the area on Sunday. The IDF gave a two-hour window within which Israeli military would refrain from conducting any operations in the Salah Al-Din route to allow for evacuation to the [...]

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called a meeting to explore possible joint actions following a Quran burning by a former Iraqi citizen in front of a Stockholm mosque during Eid-Al-Adha celebrations. The protester, Sawal Momika, burned the Quran after he received a permit to do so issued by [...]

The European Union (EU) on Monday condemned the Venezuela Comptroller General’s decision to extend opposition figure Maria Corina Machado’s disqualification from elected office. The EU said that Comptroller Elvis Amoroso’s move contravened the recommendations of the 2021 EU Electoral Observation Mission to Venezuela, which asked the comptroller general to stop disqualifying potential candidates from elections, [...]

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Minister of Justice Rose Mutombo filed an International Criminal Court (ICC) complaint against Rwanda on Tuesday over Rwanda’s alleged involvement in the theft of natural resources in the DRC. The minister stated that the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) had been collaborating with the rebel group M23, which has taken [...]

The UN Head of the Human Rights Monitoring Commission Watch, Matilda Boligner, Friday issued a report regarding the rights of Prisoners of  War (POWs) in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The report detailed a total of 8,000 people dead and 9,000 injured, many of whom were victims of the use of missiles and explosive weapons. She [...]

Google Friday released a report that analyzed the effects of the company’s policies and procedures on civil rights of its staff and consumers. The audit pointed out Google’s efforts in ensuring anti-discrimination is practised in its hiring and recruitment process as well as its retention program. It also highlighted Google’s formation of a team that checked [...]

The Lancet medical journal released a report Wednesday revealing that 54 people who underwent Utah’s eugenic sterilization program are still surviving. An estimated 830 people were subjected to the state-sanctioned practice, which started in 1925 and ended in 1970. The report blamed the state’s eugenicists for the introduction of the program. Eugenicists believed that the [...]

Residents of Ogale and Bille communities in Nigeria Thursday joined the lawsuit against Shell plc seeking compensation for oil spillage in the Niger delta. The suit has been filed in UK’s High Court with the plaintiffs being represented by Leigh Day Law firm. This follows Shell’s report, which claims to have made almost $40 billion in [...]

The UN Wednesday confirmed the discovery of 49 bodies, including six children, in two mass grave in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These mass graves were found in the villages of Nyamamba and Mbogi in the Ituri area by the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of [...]