Media Coverage

A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is based on an applicant’s race. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to implement a...

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor appealed on June 11 for information and evidence of atrocities in Sudan, saying his ongoing investigation “seems to disclose an organized, systematic and a profound attack on human dignity.” ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video...

Five years after a national inquiry in Canada delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there’s been too little systemic change across the country. The final report of the National Inquiry...

Amid the escalating violence unfolding in Sudan, activists are remembering crucial flashpoints of resistance during the pro-democracy protests in Khartoum on June 3, 2019. Before former President Omaral-Bashir was overthrown in a military coup, a civilian-led movement had levied consistent demands...

In the wake of inaugurating a new president, the Taiwanese people are revisiting the ongoing debate over how to remember the legacy of former authoritarian ruler Chiang Kai-Shek. In a recent statement on June 3, the Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation urged the government to take...

Ahead of the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, the Chinese government increased security around the perimeter of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, which was the site of a military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests on June 4, 1989. Fleets of police vehicles and checkpoints lined the...

France has opened its first trial into officials from the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad with three top security officers tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Paris Criminal Court was on May 21 hearing the cases against the officials for...

The leaders of Norway, Ireland and Spain have said their countries will formally recognize Palestine as a state next week for the sake of “peace in the Middle East,“ prompting Israel to immediately recall its envoys. Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on May 22 that a two-state solution...

José Rubén Zamora has spent nearly two years locked in a dark 16 by 13-foot cell in a Guatemalan prison, allowed only one hour a day in the sunlight. The journalist’s money laundering conviction was tossed out, and last week a judge finally ordered his conditional release to await a new trial. But...

A Russian playwright and theatre director accused of “justifying terrorism” have told a Moscow court that they are innocent on the first day of their trial over the staging of an award-winning play. The arrest of director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk in May last year sent shock...