On 19th August 2018, we will celebrate World Humanitarian Day and shine a light on the millions of civilians caught up in hidden conflicts around the world. We often get told by our supporters that they love what we do, to which we always reply, it’s not us, it is our partners who do all the hard work. […]
With the most number of entries we’ve ever received, the competition was even harder with such exceptional submissions that demonstrated inspiring passion for Human Rights advocacy. Woojin Lim, 17, won 1st place in our HART Prize for Human Rights Junior Essay Category 2018 with his essay titled: The Refugee Crisis, Burden-Sharing and Moral Obligations Around […]
This week’s HART Weekly Review includes Questions asked by Baroness Cox in the House of Lords, Blogs, and a summary of the top stories from the countries where we work. Questions in the House of Lords Baroness Cox Debate on Syria: House of Lords Hansard – On 20th December 2017, Baroness Cox and other Peers asked […]
HART News Round Up – 11th August 2017 This week, Baroness Caroline Cox and HART are in Nagorno Karabakh to visit the Lady Cox Rehabilitation Center and meet with the Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Minister and Parliamentary Speaker. We shall be releasing our visit report next week with updates on HART’s aid and advocacy work in […]
Baroness Caroline Cox and Ewelina U. Ochab argue for the importance of creating adequate “safe zones” in Iraq to protect returning civilians. The original article published by Providence can be found here. – For over two years, many areas of the Nineveh Plains in Iraq were subjected to Daesh (Islamic State, or ISIS) destruction, after […]
On the 4th July, the House of Lords debated actions in Syria, with Lord Howell of Guildford asking the ‘House [to take] note of the Report from the International Relations Committee The Middle East: Time for a New Realism‘. In the debate, Baroness Cox addressed the House with the following statement: My Lords, I thank the noble […]
HART news Baroness Cox spoke in the House of Lords on Thursday about the situations in Sudan and Syria Burma Two Chin political parties, The Chin National Democratic Party (CNDP) and the Chin Progressive Party (CPP), have agreed to merge in an attempt to unify one of the more fractured political fields in the Burma […]
One of the stories flickering the media following the Golden Globes has been that of actor Tom Hiddleston’s embarrassing acceptance speech. Supposedly a tribute to the work of Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan, Hiddleston’s speech provoked much negativity on social media being seen as nothing more than the actor’s attempts to brag. Yet Hiddleston […]
It has been over six months since the dramatic flare up in hostilities between Azeri and Karabakhi Armenian forces last April. In spite of a ceasefire being agreed to in a matter of days, little progress remains to be achieved in the Minsk peace process and the conflict continues to fly largely under the radar […]
News from HART Today, we launched our Mother’s Day Campaign 2016 to raise awareness of maternal health and equal rights, particularly in the countries where HART has partners. Keep checking our website as well as the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram pages to keep updated with articles and infographics! Earlier this week, Baroness Cox asked the […]
Amendment 234A Moved by Lord Alton of Liverpool 234A: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause— “Conditions for grant of asylum: cases of genocide (1) A person seeking asylum in the United Kingdom who belongs to a national, ethnical, racial or religious group which is, in the place from which that person originates, subject to the conditions […]
This year’s World Disasters Report states that local actors, such as National Societies, national non-governmental organisations (NGOs), faith based organisations (FBOs) and community based organisations (CBOs), are ‘the key to humanitarian effectiveness’. Localisation of aid is also a key feature in all four themes of the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016. This renewed […]
Previous HART Intern, Elisabeth Pramendorfer, has prepared a comprehensive briefing documenting the humanitarian situation in Nigeria between February and August 2015. You can download it in full at the bottom of this page. Key developments • Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential elections (first democratic elections with an opposition candidate succeeding) in March […]
Should there ever be any link between the words ‘child’ and ‘soldier’? On the 13th ‘International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers’ (February 2015) UNICEF and the United Nations (UN) Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict reported that children are increasingly vulnerable to recruitment and use by armed groups in conflicts in over 20 […]
In this second blog post for our World Refugee Day blog series, Elisabeth discusses the consequences of increasing Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria on displacement. To view other blogs in the series, please click here. Daily, sometimes hourly, international media coverage reports dramatic events from northern Nigeria and beyond, including suicide attacks, destruction of […]
This Saturday marks the 14th annual World Refugee Day. First observed in 2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention related to the status of refugees, World Refugee Day is all about honouring what Save the Children describe as the “courage, strength and determination of men, women and children who are forced to […]
This week – Omar al-Bashir narrowly escapes ICC justice. – Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Sudan’s President Omar-al Bashir back in 2009 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the court has been struggling to secure cooperation from governments around the world in arresting Bashir and bringing him to trial at […]
Yesterday (16th June), Baroness Cox raised a short oral question in the House of Lords, asking the British Government “whether they have any plans to recognise the killings of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in 1915 as genocide.” In the year of the 100th anniversary of the killings, this is a particularly relevant issue, and Baroness […]
Many may have read HART’s report on the Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide, which took place in Yerevan, two days before the official date for recognition of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. Day two of this forum was chaired by Patrick Devedjian (France), Nikolay Ryzhkov (Russia) and Baroness Caroline Cox (UK). It gave […]
This is the third article in HART’s blog series for International Women’s Day. Read the whole series here. Sexual Violence in Conflict The lasting damage which sexual violence inflicts on individuals and communities is unlike that of any other type of violence perpetrated during conflict. Rape is a particularly effective and ubiquitous weapon of war […]
News from HART – Our Blog Series for Women’s Day begins this Saturday, where Anna Cox will examine women’s role in civil societies in Burma! – Anna Cox reports from her visit to the House of Lords on Wednesday, where a crucial amendment in the Modern Slavery Bill has been passed. Burma – A […]
On January 8th, as the world was tuned into the unfolding, scathing attacks in Paris, BBC News published a story that was initially overlooked. According to the news agency, upon interviewing a senior local government official, as many as 2,000 people could have been killed in attacks by Boko Haram on the town of Baga, […]
On 8th September a letter from Baroness Cox appeared in The Times signed by herself and six other peers commenting on the displacement of Iraqi Christians and urging government response. Sir, We urge the government to respond to the plight of 100,000 displaced Christians living in life-threatening conditions in Erbil in northern Iraq, who have […]
Famine in Sudan was brought to the world’s attention in 1994 by Kevin Carter’s shocking photo of a starving Sudanese boy crouched under a vulture’s predatory gaze. As yet, no equivalent image has emerged from today’s growing crisis in the Republic of South Sudan to precipitate a comparable outpouring of aid and awareness. The level […]