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A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh’s interim government and other stakeholders beginning on August 22 to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights violations during the recent deadly violence in the South Asian country, officials said. About 300 people, many of them university...

The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, accusing the human rights watchdog of “"spreading propaganda.” Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan's human rights situation after...

South Sudan is preparing to stage its first election as an independent country. What should have been a unifying coming-of-age moment for the embryonic state is fast becoming a source of mounting anxiety. The vote was conceived as the finale to a peace agreement signed five years ago to pull the...

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), with politicians billing the move as a means of enabling the country to “punish” suspected Russian war criminals. Parliament voted on August 21 to ratify the Rome Statute, which paves the way for full membership of the...

Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major government policy address in which he promised to support the Rohingya community seeking refuge in the country and maintain Bangladesh’s garment trade. Speaking in front of diplomats and UN representatives, Yunus pledged...

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the United Kingdom’s counterterrorism strategy on how to best tackle threats by “extremist ideologies” including misogyny. Other ideological trends to be investigated by the Home Office include “Islamism” and far-right “extremism.” Cooper said...

Hamas has said a ceasefire deal must result in a permanent end to Israel’s war on Gaza, accusing the United States of “merely buying time for Israel to continue its genocide” by proposing an amended accord. As the Palestinian group revealed details of Israel’s new conditions, it urged the world to...

Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children, authorities and residents said on August 17, the latest atrocity in the country’s 18-month devastating...

Nicaragua’s government has outlawed 1,500 non-governmental organizations, part of a longstanding crackdown on civil society groups viewed as hostile by President Daniel Ortega. Ortega became the leader of Nicaragua first as the head of a military government in 1979, after fighting as a guerrilla in...

Venezuelans across the world responded to a call from their country’s political opposition on August 17 and took to the streets to defend the faction’s claim to victory over President Nicolás Maduro in last month’s disputed presidential election. The demonstrations in Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City, and...