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For the past few weeks the headlines about Gaza have focused on the hundreds of people who have been killed while queueing for food. The aid distribution system put in place in May, backed by the US and Israel and run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has proved to be…

The United States has imposed sanctions against the UN’s special rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. It’s an unprecedented situation. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, cited as the reason her direct engagement with the International Criminal Court “in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of…

Climate change “imperils all forms of life” and countries must tackle the problem or face consequences under international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has found.

The summit, being hosted in China on Thursday, marks 50 years of diplomatic ties between Brussels and Beijing.

The Government should impose import bans on goods linked to forced labour, MPs and peers have said.

Countries could be held legally liable for failure to act on climate change

More than 100 charity and human rights groups say that Israel’s blockade and ongoing military offensive are pushing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip toward starvation

Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador

Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025, according to a report by the NGO Human Rights Watch.