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Reliable counts of Palestinian deaths in the decade-spanning Gaza–Israel violence vary by source but converge on very high figures: Gaza health authorities and allied organizations report tens of thou...
International law draws a sharp line: killing shipwrecked survivors and persons hors de combat at sea is plainly forbidden under the law of armed conflict and longstanding maritime custom, and UN huma...
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted far more country-specific condemnatory resolutions targeting Israel than for other states in recent years — monitors report, for example, 173 GA resolutions ...
Independent and open-source estimates of Ukrainian killed and wounded from Feb 2022 through 2025 are fragmented and contested: Western analysts and OSINT projects give wide ranges rather than single a...
The slur in the question targets a racial group and is widely understood as a racist insult; major international and human-rights bodies call racism a persistent global problem that damages individual...
The question “What is the most racist country on Earth?” cannot be answered with a single, verifiable country because available sources use different definitions, methods and samples; published lists ...
Available reporting does not directly name anyone called “Ned” as a planner or funder of Nepal’s 2025 Gen‑Z uprising; instead multiple outlets document allegations that U.S. democracy‑promotion bodies...
The United States faces allegations that lethal strikes on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in international waters may violate multiple bodies of international law, including the law of the sea, inte...
Privacy is widely recognized in major international instruments: Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 17 of the ICCPR protect against arbitrary or unlawful interference ...
The Gaza Strip is in a fragmented, transitional political state: a November 2025 UN Security Council resolution endorses an international stabilisation framework and a U.S.-backed “peace plan” that en...
Ordering the killing of people on the high seas can qualify as an extrajudicial killing under international human-rights standards because it is a deliberate state-ordered killing without judicial pro...
The legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention requires acts (killing, causing serious harm, deliberately inflicting destructive conditions, preventing births, or forcible transfe...
Closure of airspace in armed conflict sits at the intersection of two bodies of law: sovereign aviation law, which gives States primary authority to regulate and close the airspace above their territo...
Arguments that “trans women are men” are now being advanced in law and policy—most notably the UK Supreme Court ruling and subsequent organisational changes that frame “woman” as biological sex—while ...
Several types of organizations publish global “watchlists”: civil-society monitors like CIVICUS’s Monitor Watchlist that rate civic space and recently added the U.S. to its March 2025 list ; internati...
Several states, international bodies and human-rights organisations have publicly described Israel’s conduct in Gaza as genocide or called the situation “genocide” (examples include Amnesty Internatio...
Multiple investigative outlets, U.S. government agencies and multilateral bodies report links between Venezuelan state actors—particularly elements of the military and security services—and organized ...
International bodies, specialist experts, and numerous NGOs have publicly characterised Israel’s conduct in Gaza as genocide or said there is a strong basis to reach that finding: a UN commission of i...
Saudi law has been in flux: official reforms since 2018–2022 have formally widened some adult women’s administrative autonomy (for example, the ability to apply for passports and some registration tas...
Independent international and UN-led teams have carried out detailed on-site examinations of multiple categories of incidents in Gaza since 7 October 2023—most prominently attacks on health facilities...