The year 1945 marked the close of a war waged on an unprecedented scale; the task had to be faced of developing and adapting the humanitarian elements of International Law in the light of the...
Human rights advocates have successively accused Saudi Arabia of war crimes over its conduct in Yemen, where more than 5,200 civilians have been killed and 8,800 injured since Riyadh began a...
The International Women’s Day is commemorated on 8 March each year to remind us the importance of women’s rights and gender justice and our endless fight against discrimination.
10th of December has been named as the Universal Human Rights Day, so that the anniversary of the issuing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December, 1948) is commemorated each year....
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, has been chosen with the aim of reminding universal determination to fight violence against women.
Over seventy decades since the only nuclear strikes against populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the threats of nuclear weapons still cast a heavy shadow on the people of the planet, because the...
The 24th of October 1945 is the day the UN Charter was implemented and the start of the work of the United Nations which replaced the failed League of Nations.
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and imensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.
Each State Party undertakes not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion, and to prohibit and prevent any such nuclear explosion at any place under its...
The Rohingya are Muslims and Indian-Aryan who live in Rakhin province in the west of Myanmar. Many human rights organizations define the Rohingyans as one of the most persecuted people in the...
Cluster munitions constitute a substantial part of the military arsenals of all major powers. Their development, procurement and stockpile are a central hard component of national security.