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A Palestinian searches through rubble of his destroyed home hit by Israeli strikes in Towers Al-andaa - the northern Gaza Strip.
© UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Human Rights Watch: new report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s forced displacement practices of Palestinians in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, briefs reporters at UN Headquarters.
© UN Photo/Mark Garten
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Genocide as colonial erasure: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese

Jews from Subcarpathian Rus are subjected to a selection process on a ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
© US Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Yad Vashem
genocide, crimes against humanity

Genocide and Memory: A Comparative Analysis of the Holodomor and the Holocaust

In 1995, a government soldier reads the names of soldiers who are among the survivors or escapees from the fallen city of Srebrenica
genocide, crimes against humanity

International Day of reflection for Srebrenica genocide, 11 July 2024

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Peru

OHCHR: Peru Crimes against Humanity Fight a Ticking Clock

United Nations

United Nations: "Anatomy of a genocide", Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (2024)

#Call4Peace initiative
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

#Call4Peace initiative: Open letter to European Union, through the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, "Peace for Israel and Palestine grounded in international law"

UNNews: Airstrikes destroy buildings in the Gaza Strip
© © UNRWA/Ashraf Amra Airstrikes destroy buildings in the Gaza Strip. (file)
human rights

The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 25,000 people

WHO: Surgeons operate on a patient at Al-Quds hospital in Gaza
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human rights

UNOCHA: Aid mission denials are latest threat to Gaza’s hospitals

The International Court of Justice begins hearing the case of South Africa v. Israel in The Hague.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

International Court of Justice: South Africa institutes proceeding against Israel claiming a violation of the Genocide Convention in Gaza

Families flee their shattered neighbourhood, Tal al-Hawa, to seek refuge in the southern Gaza strip.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
human rights

"Gaza is running out of time" UN experts demand ceasefire to avert genocide

Human rights Council, Session
violence

The Conclusion of the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council Addresses the Israel-Gaza Conflict

A shot of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) found last week, photographed at the Air Safety Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, held a briefing today showing the CVR, and said that nothing heard so far on the tape links that CVR to the aircraft crash of 6 April 1994 in Rwanda. The Office of Internal Oversight Services took the CVR to the United States National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C., where it was opened in the presence of experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization. Killed in the 1994 plane crash were Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprian Ntayamira, President of Burundi. Their deaths set off a chain of killings and massacres throughout Rwanda that year, with the death toll from the genocide mounting to more than 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
© UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Rwanda

The United Nations and the Rwandan genocide

A group of women in Um Baru, North Darfur.
© UNAMID/Hamid Abdulsalam
United Nations

International Criminal Court: launched investigation into surging violence in Darfur

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human rights

Former leader of Kosovo to face accusations at the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity