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CategoriesAdvocacyThe paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) overran the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, on April 11. They set fire to stores and homes, killed medical personnel, and opened fire on escaping people. Monitors report that hundreds of thousands of people were forcibly relocated and that at least 500 individuals—men, women, children, and the […]
CategoriesStatementsThe Washington Center for Human Rights (WCHR) unequivocally condemns the continued complete siege of the Gaza Strip by Israel as a cynical act of genocide and an unlawful collective punishment. Two months following Israel’s restoration of a prohibition on humanitarian and commercial items on March 2, 2025, WCHR joins Amnesty International in asserting that the […]
CategoriesStatementsThe Washington Center for Human Rights (WCHR) unequivocally condemns the arbitrary detention and imprisonment of renowned Tunisian lawyer and ex-judge Ahmed Souab, who has been jailed on trumped-up charges of terrorism in response to his condemnation of the politically motivated “conspiracy case” trial recently. His imprisonment marks a worrying development in the government of Tunisia’s […]
CategoriesAdvocacyA devastating event has emerged: Muhammad Arshad, a Pakistani worker, died while working on the construction of a stadium for the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. The incident occurred at a stadium under construction for Aramco in Khobar, where Arshad fell from an upper floor during a concrete-pouring task. The situation was deemed perilous […]
CategoriesAdvocacyThe French magazine Jeune Afrique, in an article titled “UAE, China, Russia, and Iran: Who is Supplying Sudan with Weapons in Its Ongoing War?”, noted that General al-Burhan’s takeover of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, represents a crucial turning point in his two-year conflict against General Hemedti. Nonetheless, this will not automatically resolve the civil war, […]