International
The Human Rights Council (HRC) has started its fifty-second session on 27 February, which will continue to 31 March 2023 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The Council considers the reports under the relevant agenda items, as appropriate. The agenda revolves around ten major issues to be reviewed in selected countries, including Sudan, South […]
ADH strongly condemns police violence against African American Tire Nichols The victim, Tire Nichols was only 29 years old. And like a number of African Americans already, Tire Nichols died following a brutal arrest by police on January 7. According to relatives and their lawyers, the police beat him beyond recognition. The police’s own investigation […]
Famine in Somalia: We are deeply concerned about the level of pain and suffering that so many Somalis are enduring We cannot forget the crisis in Somalia in 2011-2012 when the country was hit by a famine that killed around 260,000 people, half of whom were children under five, nor the disaster of 2017, which […]
A woman dies worldwide every two minutes from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, according to a report by UN agencies. Although since 1990 a number of countries have halved the maternal mortality rate, it is observed that in 2020, approximately 70% of all maternal deaths occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa. A woman dies worldwide every […]
LDC5- MARCH 5-9, 2023 DOHA, QATAR The least developed countries (LDCs) are a category of countries created in 1971 by the United Nations, grouping together the least socio-economically developed countries on the planet. 46 countries belong to this category, most of which are in Africa. The United Nations is launching this fifth Conference to help […]
Mali is a vast land-locked country with an area of over 1.2 million square kilometers and a population of 20.3 million. Mali’s population continues to live under a challenging mix of recurrent droughts that continuously threaten livelihoods and diminish natural resources. In the past decade, security problems and political instability have taken a grip on […]
An earthquake that occurred at dawn on February 5, 2023 with a magnitude of 7.7 and a second that occurred during the afternoon with a magnitude of 7.6 shook Turkey and Syria causing thousands of deaths and wounded. The Human Rights Agency expresses its deep pain at the thousands of Turkish and Syrian victims and […]
The United Nations Development Program is concerned that the shift of activities by violent extremist groups from the Middle East and North Africa to sub-Saharan Africa has received relatively a little attention from the International community. Deaths from terrorism have declined over the past five years worldwide, while attacks in sub-Saharan Africa have more than […]
The African continent has been always the scene of various human and material disasters resulting from armed conflicts and bad governance, exacerbated by the increasing state of poverty the vast majority of Africans in rural area already live in. In this regard, many organizations have been trying to solve human rights problems and facilitate the […]
For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plagued by numerous rebel movements. The crisis which today has put the local populations in an extremely difficult situation. A bomb attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) killed at least ten people and injured more than 39 others. The attack took place this […]
