Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflicts and generalised violence that must be addressed urgently, with poverty and climate change adding to the crisis, says UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard after visiting the country.
Place for Hope and its partners, including the Church of Scotland's Glasgow Presbytery team, is to host a three-day event exploring the nature of conflict faced by churches and faith communities, and the ways we can work together in conflict transformation.
The Italian Parliament has decided to convert into law a security decree that imposes more severe penalties on boats and people conducting search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
Somalia has made considerable progress in the political, economic, social and human rights situation over the past six years, but there is much more to do, UN human rights expert says.
More than one thousand Quakers head to London this week for a four-day meeting of witness and worship. With politics and society in a state of flux, this is a pivotal moment to consider privilege and power and how that impacts on the ability to make a difference.
Save the Children calls on governments around the world to recognise the role they have to play in ending grave violations against children, including ending arms sales to countries that bomb civilian areas indiscriminately.