Media Coverage

Lawyers representing critics of Myanmar’s military government face harassment and attacks ranging from threats and arrests to unfair trials and even torture, a human rights organization charged Thursday, saying such actions reflect a broader assault on the country’s justice system. Human Rights...

Investigators commissioned by the UN’s top human rights body on Thursday accused Israel of “delegitimizing and silencing civil society” by outlawing Palestinian human rights groups and labeling their members as “terrorists.” The findings came in the annual report by the Human Rights Council’s...

Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said on Monday. The exhumation, which is being carried out as an election campaign heats up, is the first involving people...

More than 40 people have been killed in an attack on a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to local officials and activists. Richard Dheda, an official of the local administration for Bahema Badjere in Djugu territory in the...

Nearly 300 orphans caught in the crossfire in Sudan's capital have been rescued in a daring and dangerous evacuation by humanitarian workers. The evacuations were carried out following the deaths of 67 children at the Mygoma orphanage in Khartoum. They died of starvation, dehydration, and infections...

One of the most horrifying episodes in American history spanned just two days in 1921, when at least 300 people were killed on May 31 and June 1. The attack by a white mob on African Americans in Greenwood became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. While documentaries have told the story of what...

Colombia’s government and its largest remaining guerrilla group have agreed to a six-month ceasefire at talks in Cuba, in the latest attempt to resolve a conflict dating back to the 1960s. The government and the National Liberation Army, or ELN, announced the accord at a ceremony in Havana on Friday...

Dozens of sexual assaults in Sudan reported by various organizations are estimated to be only the tip of the iceberg, while attacks perpetrated by paramilitaries and criminal gangs go unpunished. The Unit to Combat Violence against Women and Children, affiliated with Sudan’s Ministry of Social...

"We have a pandemic of suicidal thoughts in Afghanistan. The situation is the worst ever, and the world rarely thinks or talks about it," says psychologist Dr. Amal. Dr. Amal tells us she received 170 calls for help within two days of the announcement that women would be banned from universities...

Clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided the city of Ramallah in the West Bank early on Thursday in what the military said was an operation to demolish the house of a Palestinian accused of a Jerusalem double-bombing last year. The Palestinian health ministry said at least 35 people were wounded...