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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN department that promotes human rights under international law

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Jan 14, 2026
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actual deaths in palestine

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...

Jan 25, 2026
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How many die every day during the ukraine russia conflict?

Estimates of how many people die every day in the – war diverge wildly depending on definitions, timeframes and sources: narrow tallies of confirmed imply on the order of a few dozen to a few hundred ...

Dec 1, 2025
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What rules of engagement and international law govern use of force against survivors at sea?

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...

Dec 12, 2025

2:1 Un condemnation of Israel compared to the rest of the world! The stats don't lie - the UN is biased. And UNGA resolutions (including 181) are only recommendations with no legal weight

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 ...

Nov 23, 2025

What independent estimates (OSINT, IISS, UK Ministry of Defence) say about Ukrainian killed and wounded from 2022 to 2025?

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...

Jan 28, 2026

What exactly do the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 say?

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the core of the ’ : a universal, integrated set of goals adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 that call for action on , inequality, climate, peace an...

Dec 16, 2025

Are niggers bad?

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...

Nov 12, 2025

What is the most racist country on Earth?

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 ...

Jan 23, 2026

What are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 and where can the official texts be read?

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals () are the centerpiece of the ’s — a universal plan adopted by all UN member states in 2015 to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all . The ...

Dec 16, 2025

Were Ned's contributions to Nepal's uprising legal and transparent under international law?

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...

Dec 6, 2025

Under what international laws could the US be held accountable for destroying vessels in international waters?

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...

Jan 22, 2026

What are the demographic and regional patterns of sexual assault in Israel (age, gender, urban vs. settlements)?

Israeli data and civil-society reporting depict as a pervasive public-health crisis affecting mainly women and girls across age groups, with a large but poorly reported burden of and notable to author...

Jan 28, 2026

Is the Israeli Defense Force engaging in human rights violations

Multiple credible bodies — including , , and a range of international NGOs — have found or documented incidents and patterns involving Defense Forces that amount to , while Israeli authorities and the...

Jan 25, 2026

How reliable are sources claiming Ukrainian losses and how can they be verified?

losses come from a patchwork of sources— monitors, Ukrainian official tallies, civil-society memorial projects, independent datasets and international media—and each carries different strengths and bi...

Dec 17, 2025

What evidence supports or refutes trans women as men?

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 ...

Dec 15, 2025

is privacy a basic human right

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 ...

Nov 30, 2025

What is the current political status of the Gaza Strip?

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...

Nov 29, 2025

Under US and international law, would ordering killings on the high seas constitute an extrajudicial killing or piracy?

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...

Nov 27, 2025

What legal criteria define genocide and how do they apply to the Gaza conflict?

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...

Jan 31, 2026

How does Freedom for Immigrants define and document an “enforced disappearance” in ICE custody?

defines an “” in custody by invoking the framing—that disappearance occurs when a state or its agents refuse to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty—and documents it through interviews, surveys and ...