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Katherine* is one of thousands of Kenyan women who migrate to Saudi Arabia each year for jobs as domestic workers in private households. She was recruited through an agent who sold her a dream of economic fortunes, which fast turned into a nightmare of human rights abuse.

The abuses faced by migrant domestic workers are enabled by their exclusion from Saudi Arabia’s labour laws, poor enforcement of existing regulations, structural racism embedded in the country’s kafala sponsorship system and the legacies of slavery and colonialism that continue to manifest in human rights abuses today. Migrant domestic workers remain among the least protected, despite being essential to the functioning of households and the broader economies in both countries.

Here, Katherine, reveals what life was like as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia for two years, and what she thinks the Kenyan and Saudi authorities can do to end the exploitation of domestic workers and the structural discrimination they face as Black African women.

For decades Israel has been confiscating Palestinian land and demolishing Palestinian homes often to make way for the construction and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Since October 2023 there has been a sharp rise in the forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Gaza Strip, where Israel has forcibly displaced most of the population and recently threatened to permanently seize territory and subject the population to forcible transfer or deportation.

In January 2025, an Israeli court ordered the eviction of 27 families from their homes in Batn Al-Hawa, in the village of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, after a decade-long case filed by the Israeli settler organization Ateret Cohanim who claim the land is rightfully owned by a Jewish trust.

15 May is Nakba Day, which commemorates when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled or forced to flee their homes in what became Israel in 1948. They continue to be denied the right to return to this day.

This Nakba Day Zuheir Rajabi, whose family is among those who have been ordered to evacuate Batn Al-Hawa within six months, describes his experience as a Palestinian facing displacement in Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities, who have blocked the entry of aid, food, fuel, and medical supplies into Gaza for 75 days, have reportedly decided on a plan that would include “flatten[ing]” buildings and displacing Gaza’s entire population into a single “humanitarian area” if no “deal” with Hamas is reached by mid-May 2025. The dire humanitarian situation stemming from the unlawful blockade and plans to escalate forced displacement and widespread destruction demand a more robust response from other governments and institutions, especially the United States, France, Germany, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. Human Rights Watch called on all parties to the Genocide Convention to do more to prevent further atrocities, including ending weapons sales, military assistance, and diplomatic support to Israel, imposing targeted sanctions on Israeli officials, and reviewing and considering suspending bilateral agreements.

Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation. Many migrant deaths in Saudi Arabia are erroneously classified as “natural” and are neither investigated nor compensated. The process for compensation for work-related accidents is long and burdensome. Saudi authorities, FIFA, and other employers should ensure that all migrant worker deaths, regardless of perceived cause, time, and place are properly investigated and families of deceased workers are treated with dignity, and receive fair and timely compensation.

• South Sudan’s authorities have not brought to justice those responsible for attacks on civilians three years ago by government forces and allied militias in Leer and other opposition-controlled areas in southern Unity state.
• The lack of meaningful justice for the most serious crimes in Leer and other counties in southern Unity drives new cycles of abuse.
• The government should build on recent efforts to enhance justice in southern Unity and ensure credible prosecutions of those responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in 2022.

Former UK special forces personnel have accused colleagues of committing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, including alleging that they executed civilians and a child.

Graphic accounts of routine executions of handcuffed prisoners and the killings of people in their sleep were handed to the BBC, which reported that weapons were planted during cover-ups.

Veterans who spoke to the BBC spoke of a “mob mentality” among some former colleagues who were described as “lawless” and exhibiting “serious psychopathic traits”.

“They handcuffed a young boy and shot him,” said one veteran of the SAS in Afghanistan. “He was clearly a child, not even close to fighting age.”

As Gaza plunges deeper into humanitarian collapse, children are not only being killed in war - they are now at risk of dying from starvation.