As the world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, the plight of those most vulnerable in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) has largely gone unnoticed. For FCAS, who are also enduring conflict induced food-insecurity, particularly those dependent on...
At a time when millions of people across the world are concerned about food supplies and the ability of our health systems to respond to crisis, Yemen must not be forgotten. Today marks five years since a Saudi-Arabian led coalition began bombing Yemen – five...
Global Rights Compliance is pleased to be recognised in the latest 2020 annual report of the Special Rapporteur on right to food titled ‘Critical perspective on food systems, food crises and the future of the right to food’. The report analyses effect of conflict...
In their latest research report, Mwatana for Human Rights and Physicians for Human Rights examine attacks on medical facilities and personnel by parties to the Yemen conflict that took place between March 2015 and December 2018. GRC is proud to partner with Mwatana in...
On 8 March 2020, GRC will take the opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements and join calls for gender equality worldwide. UN Women’s theme of this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) is ‘I am generation equality: realising women’s rights’. GRC is proud to be a...
The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan have released their 2020 report which significantly highlights the deliberate starvation of civilians. In a press release, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says "Millions of South Sudanese civilians have...
GRC is pleased at the publication of an article titled 'Famine on Collateral Damage of War' in the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (2020) by the brilliant Margherita Stevoli, former legal consultant on the GRC Starvation Team. The article assesses...
GRC is delighted to announce the publication of the follow-on article titled "Seeing through Myanmar's fog: ICJ instigates provisional measures" on the UK Human RIghts Blog on 31 January 2020. In this article, Uzay Yasar Aysev and Wayne Jordash QC of Global...
Important to highlight that "instances of children dying from malnutrition, dehydration and other preventable deaths linked to the denial of humanitarian assistance have been documented” during the Syrian sieges, in the latest harrowing Independent International...