Forty-two-year-old human rights activist Nizar Banat was announced dead in the occupied West Bank on 24 June, after being arrested by Palestinian Authority (PA). They are controlled by the Fatah party, led by President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, who govern the unoccupied sections of the Gaza Strip
Within the month of May, figures reported the Palestinian prisoners’ association Addameer showed that roughly 3,100 Palestinians including children were arrested by Israeli authorities in a crackdown across Israeli and Palestinian territories. The report noted that the majority of these arrests occurred within Israel’s ‘Green Line Boundary’. Roughly 2,000 of
Bosnia-Herzegovina already had political, social, and economic issues before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, however, there are new issues with the national vaccination efforts, which include lacking an adequate vaccine supply, difficulty tracking who is vaccinated, and a fight against vaccine misinformation. These issues not only affect local progress but also
On June 24th, European Union leaders confronted Prime Minister Viktor Orban over Hungary’s new anti-LGBTQ law, stressing their commitment to defending all human rights. According to Reuters, the bill bans the distribution of the material in schools that promotes homosexuality or gender change and was approved last week by Hungary’s
