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NIGHT SHIFT NEWS ++ 📢 Red Cross chief describes humanitarian situation in Gaza as hell on earth ++ 🚨 40 states to participate in ICJ public hearings on Israel's #warcrimes ++ 🚨 #crimesagainsthumanity 🆘 More than 1824* killed since Israel resumed war on Gaza civilians MAR-18 - 80% of hospitals out of service: MoH ++ UN: 🆘 No aid has reached Gaza for more than five weeks ++ 230* medics killed in Lebanon by ISR forces ++ More than 1100* hospital staff and 413* aid workers and Civil Defence members killed, more than 210* journalists/media workers killed in Gaza and the West Bank ++ * (updated 2025-APR-20)
Humanitarian Service Directory for Palestinian People, State of Palestine
🆘 To help people access aid, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and its partners launched a public version of the online Humanitarian Service Directory: PRIME SOURCE
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NOV-21 2024 State of Palestine -- ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant PRIME SOURCE
PRESS RELEASE HUMAN RIGHTS DEF AL HAQ
ARP-17 Al-Haq Condemns Israel’s Continued Territorial Reordering, Evacuation Orders and Mass Displacements in Inhumane Conditions as Acts of Genocide PRIME SOURCE
PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
MAR-30 ICRC appalled by killing of PRCS medics and first responders PRIME SOURCE
FEB-25 Al-Haq calls on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to hold Biden, Blinken and Austin accountable for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza PRIME SOURCE
PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
FEB-07 Statement of ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane following the issuance of US Executive Order seeking to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court PRIME SOURCE
PRESS RELEASE THE HAGUE GROUP
JAN-31 INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT The Hague Group PRIME SOURCE
WORLD REPORT 2025 - HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
JAN-16 2024: A Year of Reckoning - Annual review of Human Rights around the globe PRIME SOURCE
PRESS RELEASE EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
JAN-02 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's life in danger due to torture: Immediate international intervention needed for his release PRIME SOURCE
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The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under the age of eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating "operations" against Gaza's largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.
Author: Norman G. Finkelstein
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN 978-0-520-29571-1 (English)
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Deutsche im Widerstand: Die VÖ-Rechte der Ethik-Texte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer wurden 2019 freigegeben. Dieses Buch ist ein #mustread für alle, die die Lücke zum heutigen Deutschland schließen möchten und nach Antworten suchen.
Bonhoeffer war V-Mann, Widerständler, christlicher Theologe. Von der Gestapo 1939 verhaftet, wurde er zwei Wochen vor Kriegsende 1945 im KZ Flossenbürg hingerichtet.
Herausgeber: Peter Zimmerling
ISBN 978-3-7655-3763-9 (Deutsch)
LATEST VIDEOS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
On 12 March 2025, four independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council spoke to the press at the United Nations Office at Geneva on the human rights situation across the occupied Palestinian territory. • Francesca
Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 • Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism • Margaret Satterthwaite, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers • Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food -
Video credit: UN HRC
On 27 February 2025, Hanaa Eltigani, Assistant Secretary-General of Youth Citizens Observers Network, spoke about Sudan to the Human Rights Council at its 58th session.
Video credit: UN HRC (HRC58)
Denmark’s welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark, is using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including up to 60 fraud-detection
algorithms, in its quest to identify benefits fraud. However, the Danish automated welfare system raises concerns about privacy erosion and human dignity. By deploying these
fraud-detection algorithms alongside traditional surveillance methods, the authorities are enabling and expanding digitized mass surveillance. Racialized groups, migrants, refugees, and people
with disabilities are all at risk of discrimination within this system. Filmmaker: Rolien Creton Credit: Amnesty International
2024
In his address to the 2024 International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, Mr. Cheikh Niang, Chair of the UN Palestinian
Rights Committee, highlights the urgent need to protect journalists reporting in conflict zones, especially Gaza. "Journalist safety is fundamental to press freedom," Niang emphasizes, citing the
threats faced by Palestinian journalists who have been killed, detained, and harassed. Despite these dangers, they continue to document the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Video credit: UNiPAL
On 4 October, Ariana Tibon-Kilma, chairperson of the Republic of the
Marshall Islands National Nuclear Commission, addressed the Human Rights Council at its 57th session during an enhanced interactive dialogue on the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands.
#HRC57
📑 Read also: The CTBT is an essential component of the international nuclear arms control and disarmament framework. INFO CTBT - Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land | FREE FILMS for content on Israel's war on Gaza provided by Media Education Foundation -
CULTURAL HERITAGE
UNESCO is conducting a preliminary damage assessment for cultural properties through remote monitoring based on satellite imagery and analysis provided by UNITAR/UNOSAT, as on-the-ground
assessments are impossible in the current situation.
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HUMANITARIAN LAWS
Gaza: “The first victim of the war is truth”
A report by United Nation's OCHA - Published: 2024-SEP-12
Environment
Wars make more carbon emissions than many countries, making humanitarian crises into environmental disasters
The US Defense Department, world's largest fossil fuel-using institution, ranks 1st globally in greenhouse gas emissions -- Report by Y. A. Seko for Anadolu
Schwerpunkt Zivilschutz - Civil Protection
BILINGUAL EN-DE
AMMAN DECLARATION 2024
A UNIFIED CALL FOR FUTURE-READY HUMANITARIAN ACTION
IN THE MENA REGION
Participants representing 17 National Societies from the Middle East & North Africa region in the 11th Red Cross Red Crescent MENA Conference: "We, the leaders of the National Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (RCRC) in the Middle East and North Africa, participating in the 11th MENA Conference, held in Amman, Jordan from 2 to 3 September 2024 (...)"
Read the full declaration >> PRIME SOURCE
The War on Civilians: Crimes Against Humanity
Krieg ist grundsätzlich verboten. Krieg verursacht unermessliches Leid. Trotzdem ist er allgegenwärtig. Die Nachrichten berichten täglich über bewaffnete Auseinandersetzungen und ihre grausamen Folgen. Massengräber, Minenopfer, Vertreibungen und Vergewaltigungen gehören zu diesem Schreckensszenario.
If War Comes To You –
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The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the core of international humanitarian law, which regulates the conduct of armed conflict and seeks to limit its effects. They protect people not taking part in hostilities and those who are no longer doing so. Source: ICRC . International Committee of the Red Cross – Geneva Conventions ++ Updated Commentary brings fresh insights on continued relevance of Geneva Conventions for treatment of prisoners of war ++
ICRC - Law & Policy Blog
The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems
Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The increased use of AI in making
military decisions relevant to the use of force has sustained such questions about biases in these technologies and in how human users programme with and rely on data based on hierarchized
socio-cultural norms, knowledges, and modes of attention.
In the latest ICRC blog post, Dr Ingvild Bode, Professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and Ishmael Bhila, PhD researcher at the “Meaningful Human Control: Between Regulation and Reflexion” project, Paderborn University, unpack the problem of algorithmic bias with reference to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS). They examine three categories of algorithmic bias – preexisting bias, technical bias, and emergent bias – across four lifecycle stages of an AI DSS, concluding that stakeholders in the ongoing discussion about AI in the military domain should consider the impact of algorithmic bias on AI DSS more seriously.
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HUMANITY HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF
A project to honour all victims of war and current crimes against humanity – the enemy of wisdom is
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