Amnesty International warns of global human rights crisis
29/4/2025: Amnesty International's annual report warns that the Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is gutting international human rights protections. This has compounded the damage done by other world leaders throughout 2024.
Source: Amnesty International
Trump’s first 100 days: US walks away from global climate action
29/4/2025: In 100 days the Trump administration has crippled international climate finance and reneged on its own pledges, as well as undermining environmental treaties such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The entire State Department’s Office for Global Change, which oversees global climate policy, has been dismantled and all of its employees laid off.
Source: Climate Home News
‘Killer Robots’ threaten human rights
28/4/2025: Human Rights Watch argues that autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime. Governments should tackle the concerns raised by such weapons systems by negotiating a multinational treaty to address the dangers.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Kashmir crisis adds more troubles for the Indus Waters Treaty
25/4/2025: India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty following the attack by militants in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. The Treaty was already under pressure from environmental change not predicted when it was signed in 1960.
Source: The Conversation
World Food Programme to cut up to 30% of staff
25/4/2025: The US contributed 46% of the World Food Programme’s budget in 2024. Drastic cuts in funding through USAID in recent months have pushed the organization to reduce its operations. This comes as hunger crises escalate around the world, especially in conflict hot spots such as Sudan and Gaza.
Source: Devex
Increases in vaccine-preventable disease threaten years of progress
24/4/2025: Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, meningitis and yellow fever are rising globally as misinformation, population growth, humanitarian crises and funding cuts jeopardize progress. UN agencies are calling for action to protect the reduction in child mortality achieved over the past 50 years.
Source: World Health Organization
The tragedy in Sudan must end
24/4/2025: The human toll of Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has reached catastrophic proportions and yet the international community sits on its hands. Both sides are sustained by external backers. The United Arab Emirates backs the RSF, while Egypt supports the SAF, prolonging the conflict. The recent London conference may turn out to be nothing but another round of aimless speeches.
Source: Inter Press Service
Mission 300 tests what it takes to power Africa
24/4/2025: Dismantling USAID has led to the collapse of Power Africa, a once high-profile US initiative to deliver access to electricity. Attention now focuses on Mission 300, an ambitious plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030.
Source: Devex
WHO to slash senior leadership and departments
23/4/2025: The World Health Organization has announced that its senior leadership team will be reduced from twelve to seven and the number of departments from 76 to 34. This is the consequence of the US, its biggest donor, withdrawing from the agency.
Source: Devex
Kenya embraces refugee integration, with support from citizens
21/4/2025: The Kenyan government has officially launched its Shirika Plan, an initiative to turn the country’s two refugee camps – Dadaab and Kakuma – into self-reliant integrated settlements. The Plan has been lauded as a major step forward in securing durable solutions for Kenya’s 800,000 refugees, the majority of whom are from neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan.
Source: The New Humanitarian