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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on judges to “urgently” rule on his request for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others linked to the war on Gaza. Prosecutor Karim Khan said that “any unjustified delay in these proceedings...

Sixty global press freedom and human rights organizations have signed a letter calling on the European Union to take decisive action against Israel for its escalating violations of media freedom and the killing of journalists in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and Israel. The letter urged the...

U.S.-led mediators said on August 23 they had secured guarantees from Sudan's warring parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the Sudanese army's absence from the discussions had hindered progress. Over 10 days of talks, a new group of mediators including...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged. The ruling is the latest attempt by Maduro to blunt protests and international criticism that...

Nepal's National Assembly on August 22 unanimously endorsed the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act amid reservations from a section of the conflict victims, and national and international human rights watchdogs. A group of victims and human...

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held rallies in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee. Refugees from children to the elderly waved placards and chanted slogans on August 25 in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, demanding...

Hamas has rejected new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, casting further doubt on the chances of a breakthrough in the latest United States-backed effort to end the 10-month-old war. A Hamas delegation left Cairo on August 25 after meeting with...

Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90 percent of its 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the top U.N. humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory says. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she and President Joe Biden are working to...

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...