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The United Kingdom has launched an independent inquiry into allegations of unlawful killings by its soldiers in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, the country’s defence ministry announced on Thursday. The statutory inquiry headed by senior judge Charles Haddon-Cave will start early next year. It...

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk says he is determined to engage with China on a damning report published by his predecessor that alleged government mistreatment of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim groups that may amount to crimes against humanity. Turk made the comments during a...

International Criminal Court appeals judges Thursday rejected the appeal by a former commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army of his conviction on dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity and upheld his 25-year sentence. In a landmark judgment nearly two...

Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations on December 1 following a 10-year break resulting from Budapest’s controversial extradition to Azerbaijan of a murderer of an Armenian soldier. In February, a Hungarian delegation visited Armenia and announced a cooperation program with...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has said 272 civilians were killed in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe last week, raising the death toll from a previous estimate of 50, which the government blames on the M23 rebel group. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the DRC denounced reports...

The prominent Guatemalan investigative newspaper “El Periodico” announced Wednesday that it is stopping its print edition, after the government arrested the paper’s president. All the paper’s reporters have been let go, and it is not clear how it can continue with digital editions only. The...

In a referendum on Sunday, more than 62 per cent of the Slovenians who turned out to vote were in favor of a bill that restores editorial independence to the national broadcaster, Radio Television of Slovenia, RTVSLO. The current leadership of the public media service—the largest in Slovenia—was...

Barely a month after granting himself new powers as China’s potential leader for life, Xi Jinping is facing a wave of public anger of the kind not seen for decades, sparked by his “zero COVID” strategy that will soon enter its fourth year. Demonstrations took place in universities and in the streets...

Hebe de Bonafini, the iconic cofounder of Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and a staunch fighter against the human rights violations committed during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, died on Sunday at the age of 93. Bonafini became one of Argentina's most famous human...

United Nations experts have called on authorities in South Sudan to investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as 9. The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe a county...