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French judges dropped a case against French peacekeepers deployed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide who were accused by survivors and human rights groups of being complicit in massacres, legal sources said on Wednesday. Survivors of the June 1994 slaughter in the hills of Bisesero in western Rwanda had...

An affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in Afghanistan has targeted Hazaras—a predominantly Shia Muslim ethnic group—and other minorities, in a wave of attacks at mosques, schools, and workplaces, undermining the Taliban’s promise of greater security, the Human Rights Watch said in a report on...

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Chief’s latest report on Sri Lanka, and a likely resolution at the coming session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government reiterated that it would not accept any external mechanism on war-time accountability. Though rejecting the possibility of...

Colombia’s Truth Commission revealed the names of 423 people and 58 companies that allegedly financed the expansion of paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 1998 within the city of Medellin. None of the people and the companies in the AUC’s financial administration were taken to court after...

Though the rejection camp had 61.9 percent support compared to 38.1 percent for approval when 99 percent of the votes had been counted after Sunday's referendum, most Chileans favor changing the dictatorship-era constitution. For in 2020, just under 80 percent of Chileans voted in favor of changing...

Around 380 people were killed in tribal clashes in Sudan between January and August, most of them in the conflict-wrecked Darfur region, the UN said Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, said more than 430 people were injured during the same period, which has...

Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, additionally saying the victims were all Oromos and describing the attackers as members of a volunteer militia known as Fano, mostly composed of ethnic Amharas. Both...

Kenya's Supreme Court has ruled that William Ruto was properly elected president, dismissing all eight petitions seeking to annul the result of the August 9 election. The ruling ends a protracted election dispute that started after polls closed last month, leading to widespread uncertainty across...

Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek equivalent of some $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and occupation of his country. Poland’s government rejects a 1953 declaration by the country’s then-communist leaders, under pressure...

China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the UN human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, which cited “serious” rights violations and patterns of torture in recent...