Media Coverage

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced two leading human rights activists to two years in jail in a trial that critics say is part of a government crackdown ahead of elections. Both Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan—leaders of the Odhikar human rights organization— “were sentenced to two years in...

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels are to fly to Riyadh for the first publicly announced visit since a Saudi-led military coalition opened hostilities in 2015, government and diplomatic sources said on Thursday. The Huthis' visit, expected in the coming days, will raise hopes of a breakthrough in the...

Azerbaijan has sent new proposals to Armenia in their longstanding attempts to reach a peace deal, but big gaps remain between the two sides, Armenia's state news agency quoted the country's foreign minister as saying on Wednesday. Armenia also submitted a proposal of its own for a withdrawal from...

Tuareg rebels in northern Mali have claimed to have seized control of a military camp and posts in the town of Bourem after weeks of fighting against the national army and Wagner mercenaries, threatening to unravel a 2015 peace deal. Tuesday’s capture of Bourem—situated between the ancient cities of...

Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country said Tuesday. The Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva...

Australia’s referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament looks like it could end in failure after the latest opinion polls showed a further decline in support for the measure just a month before the vote. The so-called Voice would give Indigenous Australians—whose ancestors have lived on the...

Authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have executed at least 100 people in 2023, according to human rights watchdog Amnesty International. In a statement on Friday, the activists said they documented several cases in which people had been sentenced to death for social media posts or drug...

Bosnian police on Tuesday arrested five people suspected of participating in a July 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, a town where Bosnian Serb troops killed over 8,000 men and boys during the Balkan country's interethnic war. Officers also conducted searches and confiscations during their operation in...

A United Nations-backed court in the Central African Republic (CAR) said it had charged ex-rebel leader Abdoulaye Hissene with crimes against humanity and war crimes on Thursday. One of the poorest countries in the world, the CAR was plunged into a bloody sectarian conflict after Seleka rebels, a...

Chile on Monday marked 50 years since a violent coup by Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende ushered in two decades of military rule that saw thousands killed and seeded the country's market-led economic model. The coup on September 11, 1973, in which tanks roamed the...