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• Human Rights Organizations Call on Congress: Do Not Send Cubans Fleeing Impacts of the U.S. Fuel Blockade to Guantánamo
  Eighty-six organizations that work on migrant rights, human rights, and humanitarian aid sent a letter to Congress today as the U.S. military threatens to detain Cubans in Guantánamo should they begin fleeing deteriorating conditions in their country — conditions caused by the United States’ sanctions and fuel blockade. The authors call on Congress to bring […]
• Trump’s War in Iran Hits Pockets at Home as Inflation Spikes
  Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices surged 3.3% over the past year in March. Prices jumped by 0.9% in the past month alone. The spike in prices was largely driven by the energy price shock from Trump’s war with Iran, which has skyrocketed oil prices and pushed gasoline above $4 per gallon. This […]
• Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing
  The Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan – as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 – is failing, according to a progress scorecard released today by five humanitarian organizations.The scorecard, led by Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International, and Save the Children, assessed progress against the plan’s own stated objectives, and concludes […]
• Iran: President Trump’s apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation demand urgent global action to prevent atrocity crimes
  Responding to the United States President Donald Trump’s statement about Iran on Truth Social on 7 April 2026, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International said:“President Trump’s very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a whole […]
• Congress Must Restrain the Trump Administration from Nuclear Weapons First Use, Says Union of Concerned Scientists
  President Donald Trump’s and his administration’s escalating threats against Iran, including alluding to first-use of nuclear weapons, have reached a breaking point. For the safety and security of the United States and the world at large, Congress must urgently intervene to prevent the United States from further escalating this conflict, according to the Union of […]
• Attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor would spell disaster
  The recklessness of the US and Israeli bombing attacks on Iran that now threaten to potentially destroy the Bushehr commercial nuclear power plant there, represents a radiological risk of monumental proportions, warned Beyond Nuclear today.The 1,000 megawatt Russian built VVER reactor sits on the Iranian coast. It is the same design as the reactors in […]