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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Trump’s 2025 national security strategy revives Monroe Doctrine and pivots U.S. power to the Americas

Force in Play

Critic of U.S. anti‑cartel strikes and advocate for investigations

On December 5, 2025, the Trump administration released a 33-page National Security Strategy declaring a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The document formally revives the 19th-century idea of the Western Hemisphere as a U.S. sphere of influence and promises to reassert American preeminence across the Americas.

Updated 6 days ago

Russia's systematic campaign against Ukrainian civilians

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Monitoring and documenting civilian casualties

Russian drone operators watched a bus full of miners leaving their shift in Ternivka on February 1, 2026, deliberately striking the civilian vehicle and killing 15 despite recognizing it as non-military. The attack on the exact day a Trump-brokered pause expired drew international condemnation, including from EU Ambassador Katarina Mathernova who questioned if explosions and dead civilians represent a ceasefire. Russia then escalated with 171 drones and a missile on February 2, followed by massive barrages of over 400 drones/missiles on February 6-7 and February 9, killing at least 18 more civilians including a mother and child in Kharkiv. Most recently, on February 11-12, Russia launched 244 total missiles and drones targeting energy infrastructure in Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, and Kharkiv, injuring at least 7 civilians and leaving over 107,000 residents without power amid freezing temperatures.

Updated Feb 12