Media Coverage

A video posted on social media by Virginia Tech professor Sweta Gyanu Baniya has made a Nepali artifact one of the latest targets for heritage activists sleuthing online to try to bring home some of the thousands of items whisked out over decades from the Himalayan country. In the video, Baniya sees...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has temporarily suspended an investigation into alleged abuses during the Philippine's "war on drugs" under President Rodrigo Duterte, in which thousands of people have died. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan wrote that the Philippines had filed a deferral request...

Top human rights group, Memorial, faces the threat of being shut down at the behest of state prosecutors who accuse it of flouting Russia's "foreign agent" laws. Founded in the late 1980s during the Soviet twilight, Memorial has spent decades documenting Stalin's repressions and helping people...

The eighth edition of the Palestinian Cinema Days film festival celebrating Palestinian filmmakers and films focused on Palestine came to a close. The final screening for the winning films focused on life under Israeli occupation and in exile. Featured filmmakers commented that they believe many...

‘Watch Out, Sniper,’ a multimedia exhibition documenting the wartime siege of the Bosnian capital through photographs, archive material from the Hague tribunal, witness testimonies, and 3D modelling opens at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo on Thursday November 18. Based...

The Swedish government has vowed to set up a truth commission to examine the country's past treatment of the Sami minority. The commission would be tasked with charting and investigating the policies affecting the Sami and their implementation. In a statement culture and democracy minister Amanda...

In a "historic" move, France is displaying 26 looted colonial-era artifacts for one last time before returning them to Benin. The wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars were pilfered by the French army 129 years ago. A landmark speech by President Emmanuel Macron in 2017...

The International Criminal Court is opening a formal investigation into allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by Venezuelan security forces under President Nicolas Maduro's rule, the first time a country in Latin America is facing scrutiny for possible crimes against humanity...

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on legislation which will enable the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to wind down and finalize its mission within the next three years. The tribunal was charged with prosecuting those...

Ten experts tasked with examining Belgium's colonial past from different points of view have delivered their final report, which includes a suggestion that the country pay reparations to the Congo. The commission behind the report was instructed to take stock of the knowledge about Belgium's...