Dublin, March 28 (RHC)-- Ireland says it is going to "intervene" in a genocide case that was initiated late last year by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Israeli regime, over the latter's months-long genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.... More


United Nations, March 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned that famine is imminent in the northern Gaza Strip.  The WFP's Palestine Country Director Matthew Hollingworth said in a video filmed in Gaza on Tuesday that children were going to sleep hungry and exhausted, as Israel continues to hinder aid deliveries to the region.... More


London, March 27 (RHC)-- Free speech advocates and experts have criticized a British court judgement for failing to stop WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States.   Assange was ordered extradited from the United Kingdom in 2022 to face espionage charges in a court in Virginia in the U.S., and he has appealed that extradition.... More


United Nations, March 28 (RHC)-- Households worldwide threw away one billion meals every day in 2022, according to a new study by the United Nations.  In the Food Waste Index Report published on Wednesday, the UN said households and businesses binned more than one trillion dollars’ worth of food at a time when more than 780 million people were going hungry.... More


Geneva, March 27 (RHC)-- The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has called for urgent international intervention to help provide Gazans with safe access to food after nearly 20 Palestinians were killed trying to reach aid.... More


London, March 27 (RHC)-- A UK court on Tuesday ruled that Julian Assange should have the chance to appeal an order to extradite him to the United States.  The High Court in London said that the WikiLeaks founder must have the right to challenge the British government’s June 2022 extradition order, unless the United States provides within three weeks "assurances" that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty.... More


United Nations, March 27 (RHC)-- Dozens of diplomats have thrown their weight behind the UN Special Rapporteur, who said there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.... More


New York, March 27 (RHC)-- A New York Times report has confirmed that its report claiming that Hamas resistance fighters have sexually assaulted Israeli women was false.  One of the key witnesses who was interviewed by the author of the report, Jeffrey Gettleman, regarding Hamas’s sexual violence of women, “falsely claimed to have seen evidence that two females suffered sexual violence at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th.”... More


Ramallah, March 26 (RHC)-- Pro-Palestine social media users are mobilizing to boycott the popular fundraising platform GoFundMe, accusing it of discriminatory practices against fundraisers for Gaza and putting the lives of Palestinians at risk by withholding funds from “genocide escape” campaigns.... More


Brasilia, March 26 (RHC)-- A magistrate of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, gave this Tuesday 48 hours for the former president of that country, Jair Bolsonaro, to explain his stay at the Hungarian Embassy in Brasilia.... More


Geneva, March 26 (RHC)-- The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem al-Salem, has expressed her deep concern about the increasing cases of rape committed by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women at the al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.... More


Geneva, March 26 (RHC)-- A UN rights expert says there are reasonable grounds to determine that Israel has committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in its onslaught on Gaza.  Francesca Albanese, the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur, presented her report to the council on Tuesday.  The report, titled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” was leaked to the public on Monday by a pro-Israeli group.... More


Caracas, March 26 (RHC)-- Venezuelan authorities have detained three individuals in Caracas as they attempted to sabotage popular mobilizations in support of President Nicolas Maduro's candidacy registration for the presidential elections on July 28th.... More


Sanaa, March 26 (RHC)-- U.S. occupation forces have carried out a series of airstrikes against targets in eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq.  American warplanes carried out 10 simultaneous strikes on residential neighborhoods and military installations in Dayr al-Zawr province, including the cities of Dayr al-Zawr, al-Mayadin and Al-Bukamal, on Tuesday morning, according to reports.... More


London, March 26 (RHC)-- A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified American documents.... More


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