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World Humanitarian Day - 19th August

International Youth Day - 12th August

HRC50: Human Rights of Migrants and Border Governance

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples - 9th August

Child abduction in war time: new strategies to protect victims from perpetrators

HRC50: Insincere Strategies in Condemning Racism and Related Intolerances

HRC50: Human Rights Situation in Burundi on a Positive Trend

HRC50: The Need of International Standards in Medico-legal Death Investigation for the Protection of the Right to Life

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - 30th July

World Humanitarian Day - 19th August

International Youth Day - 12th August

HRC50: Human Rights of Migrants and Border Governance

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples - 9th August

Child abduction in war time: new strategies to protect victims from perpetrators

HRC50: Insincere Strategies in Condemning Racism and Related Intolerances

HRC50: Human Rights Situation in Burundi on a Positive Trend

HRC50: The Need of International Standards in Medico-legal Death Investigation for the Protection of the Right to Life

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - 30th July

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Jamalida Begum – Rohingya Survivor Escapes Horror

Approximately 1 million Rohingya people reside in Myanmar (Burma), mainly in the Rakhine State (formerly Arakan, an independent and sovereign state) that is situated along the East Coast of the Bay...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Zaidoun Mamoun al-Samara

On January 4, 2004, a group of US soldiers in Samarra, Iraq, murdered Zaidoun Mamoun al-Samarrai, a young Iraqi man who was not yet twenty years old. On January 4, 2004, a group of US soldiers in...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Saida Ahmad Baghili – The face of starvation

Photo 1. Saida Afmad Baghili on wheelchair in the Al Thawra hospital, Yemen, 25 October 2016 Yemen has always been among the poorest countries in the world and has always faced challenged linked to...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Ali Shallal al-Qaysi

In 2004, photos of Iraqi prisoners tethered to dog leashes and electrical wires dominated the news. The centre of the scandal was Abu Ghraib - one of the world’s most notorious prisons. At the time,...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Scar(r)ed for Life: Everyday Violations around Israel’s Illegal Settlements

Settler violence is a daily part of life for many Palestinians: Armed Israeli settlers regularly carry out attacks against Palestinian civilians and property by, inter alia, shooting and harassing...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

The toll for freedom

The Syrian conflict has triggered negative consequences and has worsened the already fragile conditions of a developing country and a modernising society. The level of economic and social...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

In the Rubble of their Homes

In Halaweh, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills, in which the Israeli army had conducted a demolition four days earlier on 2 February, a few Palestinian residents welcomed us in front of...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Omran Daqneesh – a silence that shakes every conscience

On August 2016, the world’s conscience was shaken by the picture of a five-year-old boy, covered in dust and blood, sitting in the back of an ambulance, visibly shocked and weary. The little boy,...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Inside Guantanamo, when the “war on terror” justifies all means

Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born in Mauritania from a poor family. When he was only 18, he won a prestigious scholarship to study in Germany, where he lived for years. In 1991 and 1992, he did what...

Lest We Forget: Stories of Real Victims

Abeer Qassim al-Janabi

Abeer Qassim al-Jabani (1991 – 2006) was a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, who was gang-raped and killed, and her family murdered by United States Army soldiers, on March 12, 2006.

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