Media Coverage

Myanmar’s junta has officially banned the online news outlet The Irrawaddy and charged the outlet’s registered publisher for violating national security laws, state media reported over the weekend, following months of legal harassment. The ban is the latest on at least 20 media groups—news agencies...

RP Singh, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—one of India’s major political parties—has written to India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah calling for the establishment of a “truth commission” to expose the conspiracy behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and take cognizance...

On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special...

In a resolution passed after a meeting in Washington, DC, on Thursday afternoon, the Organization of American States (OAS) permanent council expressed “solidarity and support” for Peru’s government, “as well as for [the] preservation of the democratic political institutional process." The left-wing...

Seoul's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong has said, “There are a lot of speculative articles (over the solution to the wartime forced labor issue) but the governments have not made a decision, nor set a deadline (for resolution),” after a trilateral meeting with his American and Japanese...

The findings of the research, which was published last week, revealed that half of the 900 sexual abuse cases that the Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT) has documented were committed in what it called “rape houses,” where women were temporarily held to be assaulted, and that in...

Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride is being prosecuted for allegedly leaking a cache of documents to the ABC that informed a series on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and led to a much-publicized federal police raid on the ABC’s Sydney offices in 2019. Two experts were set to support...

Canada announced in early January that it had reached a 40-billion Canadian dollar ($29bn) deal to reform the First Nations Child and Family Services program and compensate Indigenous children who were removed from their homes, or who did not receive or faced delays in accessing services. A final...

Amnesty International has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate possible war crimes following the “unlawful attacks” committed during Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip in August. Israeli forces “boasted” of the precision of their attacks on Gaza in August, said...

Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in northern Ukraine during the early weeks of the war, including attacks on civilians that qualify as war crimes, the United Nations has found. In a report published last Tuesday, the three members of the Independent...