Media Coverage

There were nearly 5,000 homicides counted in Haiti last year, more than double than in 2022, a United Nations report said on January 23, as the country endures rampant gang violence amid the near-collapse of its political institutions. The small Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Western...

Denmark’s defense ministry said it would launch a review after evidence emerged showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011, the first time any of the 10 countries involved in the NATO bombing campaign has acknowledged a possible link to non-combatant...

China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a United Nations meeting on January 23, with mostly Western countries calling for protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong, which Beijing dismissed as guidance based on lies. The review at the U.N. in Geneva is the first...

The Philippine government will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into a brutal anti-narcotics campaign, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on January 23. "I consider it as a threat to our sovereignty. Therefore, the Philippine government will not lift a finger...

Ecuador's police on January 22 said they have captured the leader of Colombian armed group Oliver Sinisterra and that Ecuadorean authorities will return him to Colombia. News of the capture comes amid a military offensive launched by Ecuador's government to combat criminal gangs. President Daniel...

Venezuela's attorney general on January 22 said 14 arrest warrants were issued against civilians and former military personnel for allegedly conspiring against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. On January 15, Maduro told legislators who back the government that conspiracies against him and...

A district court in The Hague has convicted a former member of a Syrian pro-government armed group for complicity in torture and illegal arrest in Syria and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The court said the defendant, identified in court only as Mustafa A, was a leading member of the Liwa al...

Peru’s prosecutor’s office has formally requested 34 years in prison for former President Pedro Castillo, who was dramatically removed from office and arrested after his attempt to dissolve Congress in late 2022. On January 12, the public prosecution office wrote on social media that it sought the...

Hundreds of people paid their respects on the 25th anniversary of the killing of 45 Kosovo Albanian civilians by Serbian forces in Recak/Racak—a massacre that helped spark NATO’s military action against Yugoslavia. Recak/Racak was surrounded and attacked by Serbian security forces on the morning of...

France's highest court on January 16 rejected a request by French cement maker Lafarge to dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an investigation over how it kept its factory running in Syria after war broke out in 2011. The ruling, which upheld an earlier decision by a...