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As reported in a recent New York Times article, a group of doctors, nurses, and paramedics reported a cluster of what was claimed to be gunshot wounds to the heads of children in the crowded battle space of Gaza. No reasonable military mission scenario would allow such targeting. Though not explicitly stated, the piece strongly [...]

A 49-year-old man named Atsunobu Usuda reportedly threw several firebombs at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and rammed a van into a barricade at the nearby Prime Minister’s office on Saturday. According to local media, he threw five of what appeared to be [...]

Amnesty International called Friday for the immediate release of Thomas Allan Zgambo, a Zambian journalist detained since October 16 in Lusaka. Zgambo, who writes for the Zambia Whistleblower website, has been held at Ridgeway Police Station without formal charges, exemplifying rising concerns about press freedom and human rights in Zambia. Vongai Chikwanda, Amnesty’s deputy director [...]

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory released a position paper on Friday, asserting that all states and international organizations, including the UN, must act to end Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This development comes amid escalating violence and humanitarian crises in the region, particularly amid Israel’s military operations [...]

The Ivory Coast National Security Council announced the dissolution of student unions across the country on Thursday, including the Federation Student and School Association of Côte d’Ivoire (FESCI), over their alleged involvement in criminal activities, including the killing of two students. The government opened a judicial inquiry into the killing of the students, carried out arrests [...]

The St. Louis Reparations Commission detailed centuries of racial injustice in the Missouri city and urged investment in local Black communities to address long-standing economic and social disparities in a 124-page report released on Thursday. The commission recommended measures such as direct cash payments, zero-interest loans, and entrepreneurial grants for current Black residents. The report [...]

Nineteen international civil society organizations issued a statement Friday demanding due process guarantees at a key hearing for Guatemalan journalist Jose Rubén Zamora. The hearing is scheduled for October 18. The organizations, including Amnesty International, Article 19 and the Committee to Protect Journalists, expressed deep concern over reports of human rights violations and threats to [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against a physician for providing gender transition care to 21 minor patients, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting medical interventions related to gender transition. The lawsuit accuses Dr. May Lau of engaging in “deceptive trade practices, including misleading pharmacies, insurance providers, and/or patients by falsifying [...]

A Georgia grand jury on Thursday charged a father and son for a school shooting that killed two students and two teachers. The grand jury, a group of civilians tasked by the court with determining whether the evidence supports a criminal charge, found probable cause against both the father, Colin Gray, and the son and [...]

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has accused Russia of systematically torturing prisoners of war (POWs), with up to 90 percent of returned Ukrainian soldiers reporting abuse during their detention in Russian facilities. At a Tuesday event in Brussels organized by the Center for European Politics, Kostin noted that these findings come from Ukraine’s ongoing investigations into [...]