“A war of atrocities:” Sudan civilians deliberately targeted, UN Fact-Finding Mission reports international crimes on large-scale
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Rival forces in Sudan are deliberately targeting the devastated nation’s civilian population, committing atrocities including war crimes on a large scale, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said in its latest report today.
DRC: UN report raises spectre of war crimes and crimes against humanity in North and South Kivu
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )All parties to the conflict in the Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a UN Human Rights Office report publ
Sudan: Drone strikes must be investigated
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The deadly aerial strike this week on a UN humanitarian convoy in Al Koma, North Darfur, clearly undermines access by civilians to assistance and violates the international humanitarian law prohibition of attacks against humanitarian personnel and objects
Libya: Sites of gross human rights violations must be sealed and impartially investigated - Türk
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Wednesday he was shocked by revelations of gross human rights violations uncovered at official and unofficial detention facilities run by the Stabilization Support Apparatus (SSA) force in Tripoli.
Reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )The overarching theme of the 2025 session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent was “Africa and people of African descent: United for reparatory justice in the age of Artificial Intelligence,”
Sudan: UN expert calls for end to attacks on critical civilian infrastructure amidst intensifying drone strikes.
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The designated Expert on human rights in Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed deep concern at the recent intensification of drone strikes and the expansion of the conflict to Red Sea state in eastern Sudan.
Beyond Compensation: Reparatory Justice as a Structural Economic Imperative for Africa
Stories & Blogs OSAA (News )These historical crimes included the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, apartheid, and systemic racial discrimination
Mali: UN experts outraged by reports of summary executions and enforced disappearances
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN experts today expressed outrage at the alleged summary execution of several dozen people in Mali, as well as the enforced disappearance of others.
Horrors in Sudan know no bounds, warns Türk, urging an end to the conflict.
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The horror unfolding in Sudan knows no bounds. Just three days ago, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched coordinated attacks from multiple directions on the besieged city of El Fasher and Abu Shouk camp, killing at least 40 civilians.
Sudan: UN Human Rights Chief appalled by widespread extrajudicial killings in Khartoum
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday said he was appalled by reports of widespread extrajudicial killings of civilians in Khartoum following its recapture by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on 26 March.