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As the terms of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons expire on October 17, it is unclear what will happen of the transitional justice process in Nepal. “We had hoped that the Act would be revised by Parliament after incorporating...

Members from the UN's Commission of Inquiry for Syria publically called for an international mechanism for Syria's disappeared. In August, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres released his landmark report on how to bolster efforts to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons in the...

Lee Sang-ryeol, the South Korean ministry's director general for Asia and Pacific affairs, is scheduled to meet with his Japanese counterpart, Takehiro Funakoshi, at the Seoul foreign ministry in Seoul. Discussions are expected to focus on the issue of resolving compensation for forced labor of...

Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and the country's "so-called Morality Police," saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police...

A former Liberian rebel went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of crimes against humanity, torture, and acts of barbarism during the West African country’s civil war in the 1990s. Kunti Kamara, 47, was arrested near Paris in 2018, following a complaint filed by Swiss-based group Civitas Maxima...

Libya’s Missing Persons Authority announced Sunday the discovery of 42 bodies buried in a mass grave in the central coastal city of Sirte, a former stronghold of the ousted Islamic State group. In a statement, the authority’s spokesperson said the 42 bodies had been exhumed from a school site in the...

Azerbaijan said it has discovered what it claimed is a mass grave of its soldiers allegedly executed by Armenian separatist forces during the 1990s war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “A mass grave of Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and executed during the first Karabakh war was...

The video was released on Telegram channels on the morning of October 2, and it depicted a group of Azerbaijani soldiers shooting a group of unarmed Armenian soldiers. The office of Armenia’s human rights ombudsman said it had verified the authenticity of the video and that it was filmed during a...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

Three former presidents of Albania and one of Kosovo on Wednesday visited ethnic Albanian former commanders in the fight against Serbian rule in Kosovo who are being held in a Netherlands prison pending trial for alleged war crimes. An EU-backed war crimes court and a linked prosecutor’s office...