Confronting the global political economy enabling Israel’s genocide
18/9/2025: Amnesty International is calling on states to ban, with immediate effect, the supply to Israel of all arms, military and security equipment and services. The briefing names 15 international companies identified as contributing to Israel’s unlawful occupation, genocide or other crimes under international law.
Source: Amnesty International
UN Commission finds that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza
17/9/2025: The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has found that Israel is responsible for committing genocide in Gaza, citing deliberate efforts to destroy Palestinian life. Israeli officials have dismissed the Commission’s findings, accusing it of bias and refusing to cooperate with its investigations.
Source: Inter Press Service
UN General Assembly endorses two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
12/9/2025: 142 member countries have voted in favour of the New York Declaration, a document setting out a solution to the conflict in Gaza. The roadmap involves an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages held there, and the establishment of a Palestinian State that is both viable and sovereign, and which excludes Hamas from any governance role.
Source: UN News
Israeli displacement order on entire Gaza City defies international law
9/9/2025: Israel’s intent to displace around 1 million civilians, half of whom are living in famine, is impossible and illegal, according to Oxfam, while the Israeli military continued to flatten Gaza City building by building. The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 explicitly prohibits an occupying power from deporting or forcibly transferring members of the occupied civilian population.
Source: Oxfam International
Funding cuts curtail assistance to victims of sexual violence in DR Congo
5/9/2025: The UN has warned that the cash crunch affecting its human rights work has impeded a potential war crimes probe into sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Violations of international humanitarian law have been committed by all parties to the conflict.
Source: UN News
Sudan: UN should extend arms embargo
29/8/2025: Human Rights Watch calls on the UN Security Council to renew and expand the arms embargo on Darfur to cover the whole of Sudan and impose sanctions against the warring parties’ leadership. UN officials have warned that civilians trapped in areas in North Darfur and the Kordofan region face starvation.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Was the attack on Gaza’s Nasser hospital a war crime?
27/8/2025: There has been widespread international outrage at Israel’s attacks on Nasser hospital in northern Gaza, on August 25. The second attack on the same location, minutes after the first, killed five journalists and several medical staff treating people injured. Journalists are marked out for special protection under the Geneva Conventions.
Source: The Conversation
What’s the future of women’s participation in peacekeeping
26/8/2025: In the 25 years since UN Security Council Resolution 1325 mandated the women peace and security agenda, peace operations have advanced women’s inclusion and promoted gender-sensitivity. But persistent gaps remain visible and they demand urgent attention as global conflicts intensify.
Source: PassBlue
Did Trump really resolve six conflicts in a matter of months?
21/8/2025: The US president, Donald Trump, claims to have “solved six wars in six months”. Six academic experts outline what Trump actually did, and whether it made a difference.
Source: The Conversation
UN chief calls for total elimination of nuclear weapons
8/8/2025: 80 years after the US dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the UN Secretary-General has told a conference in Nagasaki that "nuclear weapons have no place in our world.”
Source: UN News