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A leading human rights group in Haiti warned about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings as the UN Security Council met Friday to discuss the country’s worsening violence. In a report issued Thursday, the National Human Rights Defense Network also condemned what it called the government’s inaction...

Myanmar’s military rulers are preventing life-saving humanitarian aid from reaching people who need it as the country falls deeper into violence, the United Nations human rights chief has said. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the...

At least 60 female students in Iran have reportedly been barred from university for flouting the country’s mandatory hijab law. Videos recently shared by citizen journalists show the harassment of women and girls in subways, streets, and university campuses by disciplinary committees and pro-regime...

The Kosovo government said on Tuesday it will scale down the police presence and take other measures to lower tensions in a northern region where hostilities between Albanians and ethnic Serbs have reached their highest level since the country declared independence in 2008. Violence in north Kosovo...

A mass grave containing the remains of at least 87 people, including ethnic Masalits, has been found in Sudan's West Darfur, the UN said on Thursday. The UN Human Rights Office said it had "credible information" that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for the killings which...

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, and his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba have been accused of sponsoring violence and abusing critics in harrowing testimony filed before the international criminal court. The submissions contain detailed allegations of the torture of opposition figures and activists...

Crews working on finding mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are moving forward on another step in the process. The city announced another two-day test excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery this week and it kicks off this Thursday morning. This excavation is not about searching for graves like we...

Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians, and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada. A Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past...

Myanmar’s military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the guerrilla group. A report Thursday in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper said so-called People’s Defense...

Palestinian minors arrested by Israeli forces face immense emotional and physical abuse, according to the rights group Save the Children, which has revealed the tragedy minors go through as detainees in a new report. In the report published on Monday, the group said some of the former child...