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A UN-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela said Wednesday the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with threats, surveillance, and harassment as President Nicolás Maduro faces a re-election contest next year. The...

The United Nations said Wednesday that Afghanistan's Taliban had committed more than 1,600 human rights violations during arrests and detentions of people, including women, and it urged the de facto authorities to cease the abuses. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, has documented...

Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA)—a military school turned secret detention center—has been named a United Nations World Heritage site in an effort to preserve its grisly history. Some 5,000 people disappeared behind its walls. Many were never seen again. In 1976, a military group...

Rights groups have claimed that Iranian authorities arrested Mahsa Amini’s father and prevented her family from holding a vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of her death. The 1500tasvir monitor, the Iran Human Rights group, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said Amjad Amini had been...

The human rights situation in Russia has significantly deteriorated since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, a United Nations expert said on Monday, describing a "systematic crackdown" on civil society and calling for redress. The report by Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova alleges that...

The United Nations said on Tuesday countries could consider financial reparations among the measures to compensate for the enslavement of people of African descent, though legal claims are complicated by the time passed and the difficulty in identifying perpetrators and victims. A report of UN...

Nearly 1,400 indigenous people from the Awá El Sande reservation—in the Colombian municipalities of Samaniego and Santacruz (Nariño)—have been displaced due to fighting between FARC dissidents, and the Frente Comuneros del Sur, of the National Liberation Army (ELN). The situation was highlighted by...

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced two leading human rights activists to two years in jail in a trial that critics say is part of a government crackdown ahead of elections. Both Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan—leaders of the Odhikar human rights organization— “were sentenced to two years in...

Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country said Tuesday. The Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva...

Authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have executed at least 100 people in 2023, according to human rights watchdog Amnesty International. In a statement on Friday, the activists said they documented several cases in which people had been sentenced to death for social media posts or drug...