Human Rights

Palestine weekly wrap: No respite for Eid as Israel kills dozens in Gaza

International isolation has deepened after reports of sexual abuse and the widening seizure of Gaza territory.

US university sells dead bodies to navy for Israeli military training

The AJ+ documentary series Direct From investigates connections between body donations and Israeli military programmes.

‘Trapped’: Gaza patients flown to Iraq stuck in administrative limbo

Palestinian patients stripped of their documents are confined inside a Baghdad medical centre.

Nearly 5,000 staff, students urge Belgium’s universities to cut Israel ties

A letter representing more than 10 percent of the Belgian professoriate calls for end to all collaborations with Israel.

Refugee women in CAR face childbirth risks amid US funding cuts

A woman holds her baby outside the registration centre for new refugees on the outskirts of the Korsi refugee camp in Birao, Central African Republic. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Maude Ahmad Fadala rocks her baby inside the Korsi refugee camp, where she gave birth in the street in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women crowd the tiny maternity ward in Birao, which has just eight beds for about 70,000 locals and 22,000 Sudanese refugees, in a country where more than 40 percent of births already take place outside any health facility. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women and children fetch water at dusk in the Korsi camp in Birao. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A nurse gives painkillers to patient Amna Adam Hessen, whose baby was delivered stillborn the previous day. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Patients sit thigh‑to‑thigh on hard benches in the sweltering maternity ward as staff say the number of women arriving daily has tripled since Sudan’s war began in early 2023, overwhelming a health system already weakened by years of internal conflict. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A nurse checks on a woman recovering from heavy bleeding after a complicated breech delivery, one of the preventable emergencies that become lethal when pregnancies go unmonitored despite World Health Organization guidance for at least eight prenatal visits. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women wait outside the delivery room at the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Heavily pregnant Sudanese refugees queue for water in a camp near the Sudan border, where displacement, poverty and lack of education intersect with a collapsed referral system, leaving many unsure whether any help will be available when labour starts. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

A pharmacist hands pregnant women painkillers from boxes at the pharmacy of the Birao District Hospital. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Refugee Amna Adam Hessen lies on a bare foam mattress after losing her breech baby and bleeding heavily during labour, a death narrowly averted in a country where nearly two‑thirds of maternal deaths worldwide occur in conflict or fragile settings. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]

Women line up outside the maternity entrance at Birao District Hospital, one of the only facilities in the area that used to receive reproductive health supplies from UNFPA — the sole provider in town — before aid cuts threw maternal care into a deeper crisis. [Caitlin Kelly/AP Photo]