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Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees on Thursday marked the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, while the United States, European Union, and other Western nations pledged to continue supporting the refugees’ pursuit of justice in international courts. Bangladesh is...

Mexico's former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture, and the obstruction of justice. The students vanished while traveling by bus...

The District Court in Doboj has confirmed an indictment charging Ante Pavic, a former military policeman with the Croatian Defense Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, with war crimes against civilians. According to the indictment, Pavic participated in beatings, unlawful detentions and rape...

A ceremony has been held in Glasgow, Scotland, to officially repatriate seven Indian cultural artefacts looted during British colonial rule. Dignitaries from the High Commission of India joined members of Glasgow Life, the charity that manages the Scottish city’s museum collections, at the transfer...

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice. In 1993, Venera Meshveliani was one among more than 300 people who were held hostage by Russian soldiers for around three weeks in Abkhazia, a breakaway region in northwestern Georgia that...

A cohort of independent UN experts has called on the Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the massive explosion in Beirut two year ago, with a view to securing justice for those who died and were injured. The powerful blast, caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate in...

State prosecutors said on Tuesday that they have filed an appeal contesting the verdict that cleared Dragan Vikic and three co-defendants of committing a war crime against prisoners of war who were killed in Veliki Park in Sarajevo in the early weeks of the siege of the city on April 22, 1992. The...

A special peace tribunal investigating atrocities committed during Colombia’s decades-long conflict has charged 19 soldiers with war crimes and crimes against humanity for murdering 303 people, mostly civilians, between 2005 and 2008. The murders form part of what is known in Colombia as “false...

Nepal risks letting wartime atrocities committed during the Himalayan kingdom’s Maoist rebellion go unpunished with long-delayed reforms to its transitional justice laws, rights groups have said. Both security forces and former rebels have been accused of carrying out torture, killings, rapes and...

Pope Francis offered a sweeping apology directly to Indigenous people on their land in Canada. The pope’s six-day visit to Canada, which will include a visit Tuesday to Lac Ste. Anne, a pilgrimage site that is sacred to many Indigenous people, and meetings with Indigenous and church representatives...