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Online sextortion: the risks for children and adolescents
Online child sexual abuse: what children experience in the face of new technologies
Grooming and social media: when the internet stops being a safe space
Racism, colonialism and human rights: an ongoing struggle
Ecuador faces an acute hunger crisis affecting 2.6 million people
Rising food prices, violence, forced displacement and climate events are deepening food insecurity in the country, while international organizations w…
Myanmar: a massacre of the Rohingya population exposes the impunity of armed actors
Human Rights Watch reported that at least 170 civilians were killed in the village of Hoyyar Siri. While the survivors remain displaced, organizations…
Nearly one million displaced and hospitals under attack deepen the emergency in Lebanon
The UN warned of deteriorating humanitarian conditions amid the clashes between Israel and Hezbollah and called for more funding to assist 1.4 million…
UNESCO champions environmental journalism in the face of the climate crisis and disinformation
The new international guide offers tools to communicate environmental issues with rigor, transparency and a focus on solutions. UNESCO launched a prac…
Iran intensifies political repression and restricts rights under the pretext of war
Amnesty International denounced thousands of detentions, politically motivated executions and a massive internet shutdown that affected millions of pe…
Israeli occupation in southern Syria draws mounting reports of displacement and destruction of homes
Amnesty International documented the demolition of homes, orchards and farmland in Quneitra and called for the events to be investigated as possible w…
The Vatican joins the international call against killer robots
Leo XIV’s first encyclical rejected the idea that algorithms and autonomous systems can make lethal decisions and called for global regulations to gua…
More than 4,300 Cubans were deported to Mexico and remain trapped in legal limbo
Human Rights Watch denounced that the Trump administration expelled thousands of people without due process guarantees. Many of the deportees, who had…