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The life of jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah is in great danger, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, renewing a call for Egypt to immediately release him. Abd el-Fattah, a prominent activist who is a dual British and Egyptian citizen, has been jailed since...

The EU froze the assets of 19 people—including Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister, the chief justice at Myanmar’s supreme court, top military brass, and businesspeople linked to the armed forces—and banned them from traveling in Europe. The 27-nation bloc also froze the assets in...

There are over 100,000 missing people in Mexico, and police often lack the time, expertise, or interest to look for the clandestine grave sites where gangs frequently bury them. Faced with official inaction or incompetence, many mothers are forced to do their own investigations or join search teams...

British forces have paid compensation for the deaths of 64 children in Afghanistan, a toll four times higher than the 16 child deaths publicly acknowledged by the Ministry of Defense, according to a new report. Action on Armed Violence, a United Kingdom-based charity, found that the British...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the UK and Mauritius to center the Chagossian people in upcoming negations. The UK announced on November 3, 2022, that it was open to reaching an agreement with Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands. HRW called for full reparations for the Chagossian...

Cholera has swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as the countries have struggled with devastated infrastructure, turmoil and housing large populations of people displaced by conflict. The hundreds of thousands of cases, worsened by conflict, poverty and climate change, have become a major setback...

Armenia and Azerbaijan held peace talks on Monday, mediated by the United States, just hours after a fresh shootout along their troubled border in a conflict which has left hundreds dead in recent months. An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting was less about peace...

Uzbekistan used force "unjustifiably" during fatal unrest in its autonomous Karakalpakstan region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report that demands accountability for the July crackdown. Citing independent medical analysis of video and photo evidence, the report is the first by a major rights...

City officials in Tulsa, Okla., announced on Monday that 17 adult-sized graves were uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn Cemetery and another four were found on Tuesday, including two child-sized burials. The project is part of the city's years-long efforts to get an accurate count of how...

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. "Obviously this is not without disappointment and...