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May 4, 2020

UN expert warns on human rights consequences of Israeli annexation plans

The plan would crystalise a 21st century apartheid, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967.
April 13, 2020

COVID-19 relief in the US 'should meet basic needs of those most in distress'

At least 28 million Americans were uninsured before the crisis and that number is likely to increase dramatically as people lose their jobs and employer-based insurance.
March 1, 2020

Prolonged solitary confinement amounts to psychological torture, says UN expert

A UN expert has expressed alarm at the excessive use of solitary confinement by correctional facilities in the United States.
February 5, 2020

Trump administration abandons landmine ban

The new policy to use antipersonnel mines is a retrograde action that should be condemned, says Human rights Watch.
January 22, 2020

Christian CND welcomes South Korean peace delegation to London

The Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament welcomes a delegation of South Korean Christians to London next week as part of the 'Pilgrimage for Life and Peace to Europe'.
January 21, 2020

Tribal communities in India plead with US not to fund eviction from ancestral lands

Two tribal communities in India have written to the US authorities urging them to scrap support for a conservation project that could lead to the tribe’s eviction from their ancestral forests.
January 11, 2020

British Quakers join calls for de-escalation of US-Iran tension

Quakers in Britain have called for a peaceful resolution to tensions between the United States, Iran and other countries.
January 9, 2020

WCC leaders reiterate need for US and Iran to step back from escalating conflict

In the aftermath of armed attacks by both the US and Iran, the World Council of Churches has called for restraint and de-escalation of the confrontation.
December 6, 2019

UK urged to use its influence to support women's rights defenders in Afghanistan

The current peace deal being brokered between the Taliban and the US risks setting women’s rights and security back many years by not making assurances to protect women’s employment, education and participation in government, Christian Aid is warning.
November 18, 2019

Call for governor of Texas to grant clemency to Rodney Reed

Amnesty International has called on the governor of Texas to grant clemency to Rodney Reed, a black man facing execution despite serious doubts over his conviction before an all-white jury in 1998.