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On November 16, Watchlist’s Executive Director attended the official launch of the Office of the Prosecutor (Office) of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Policy on Children at The Hague. [...]

(Human Rights Watch) – Forces of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) launched at least three chemical attacks on the Iraqi town of Qayyarah. The use of toxic chemicals as a means of [...]

(IRIN News) – Aid agencies and journalists like to use lists. They usually apply to bad things: the worst place to be a woman; top five crazy holiday destinations; or, in the case of the [...]

(OHCHR) – As mass graves and further evidence of sexual exploitation of women and girls, torture and killings, child recruitment and other grave human rights abuses committed by ISIL in [...]

(Amnesty International) – “When we came here, we walked past our village. I would walk and cry, looking around at all the destroyed houses. Everything had fallen.” This lament of an elderly [...]

(MSF) – Helle Poulsen-Dobbyns has just returned from Maiduguri – the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria – where she was programme coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). [...]

(Al Jazeera) – They screamed and cried as they watched the fire spread in the darkness. Residents of three neighbouring villages rushed from their homes with buckets of water. But they [...]

(The New York Times) – The United Nations implored all sides in the Syria conflict on Thursday to allow food deliveries to rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where roughly 250,000 residents, under [...]

(UNAMID) – On 30 August 2016, UNAMID’s Community Stabilisation Section—Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (CSS-DDR) officially launched, in collaboration with the Sudan DDR [...]

(UN News Centre) – The United Nations estimates that 1.2 to 1.5 million people are currently being affected by the military operations underway to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of [...]