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A statue bearing the names of 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital, Pristina. The “Wall of Honor” statue was placed in a park in Pristina in the presence of some of the rescuers' descendants, political leaders, and the U...

A coalition—the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)—advocating for Native American people impacted by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths, plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers...

It has been 10 years since the chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. In 2013, amidst Syria’s war, the Syrian regime attacked the towns of Zamalka, Ein Tarma, and Irbin in Ghouta countryside with a nerve agent. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights...

The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at Amsterdam City Hall on Thursday...

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights says it fully supports calls to search for the remains of Indigenous women believed to be the victims of an alleged Winnipeg serial killer. "In this situation, the human rights implications are clear," Isha Khan—CEO of the Winnipeg-based museum—wrote in an August...

It has been 10 years since hundreds of protesters were killed in Egypt’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square, the biggest massacre in the country’s modern history. For weeks, tens of thousands of people had staged a mass peaceful sit-in at the square in Cairo, demonstrating against the military coup that had...

Japan on Sunday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the final phase of World War II. Considering the growing nuclear threat worldwide, the mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui called for the abolition of nuclear weapons and described the nuclear deterrence policy of...

The United Kingdom has acknowledged that the ISIL (ISIS) group committed “acts of genocide” against the Yazidi people in 2014. Marking the ninth anniversary of atrocities committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community, the UK’s decision on Tuesday follows a ruling by the German Federal Court of...

The entire urban space of Gernika-Lumo, in Spain’s northern Basque region, will be considered a “place of memory.” The Spanish government, which had originally meant to grant this status to one landmark building, has decided to expand it to the entire municipality, known worldwide for having been...

Wearing headsets and sensors, viewers encounter such grim scenes on a virtual "visit" to one of Venezuela's most notorious prisons, El Helicoide, in Caracas. The VR event Helicoide Reality, featuring the testimony of 30 survivors of torture by Venezuela's intelligence services, has been presented in...