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As Afghanistan grapples with the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power, the country faces the daunting task of rebuilding its political institutions from the ground up. The failures of the previous centralized, autocratic system have laid bare the urgent need for a fundamental rethinking of Afghanistan’s governance model – one that is rooted in [...]

Chile filed a declaration of intervention Friday in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The South American country submitted its declaration under Article 63 of the Statute of the ICJ, which gives states a right to intervene in the interpretation of a multilateral convention. Chile’s intervention emphasizes several [...]

Amnesty International has condemned the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) in a Tuesday report for authorizing the Internal Security Agency (ISA) to increase crackdown on dissidents. Amnesty International interviewed detainees, including family, lawyers, and activists, and stated that the suppression of political rivals and activists has resulted in human rights abuses and two suspicious deaths [...]

Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced on Tuesday the suspension of 30 permits for arms sales to Israel and the unprecedented blocking of a contract with the US Government to send Quebec-made ammunition to the Israeli Defense Forces, according to local, media. The Canadian arm of General Dynamics, a US-based corporation, had produced the [...]

Tajikistan’s authorities systematically discriminate against the Pamiri minority, and grossly violate their rights, through suppression of cultural and religious institutions, political exclusion and violent repression, according to a new report by Amnesty International released on Wednesday. The Pamiris are a separate ethnic group that lives in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, mostly practicing the Shia Ismaili [...]

The Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has revoked its consent for the Federative Republic of Brazil to represent Argentina’s interests and nationals in Venezuelan territory, effectively immediately. This decision also terminates Brazil’s custodianship over the properties and archives of the Argentine mission in Venezuela. Brazil had [...]

The trial of four American socialist activists began this week in Florida in a case that echoes the ideological tensions of the Cold War era. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused these individuals of instigating social unrest in the US at the behest of the Kremlin. This case pits allegations of Russian misinformation against [...]

The UK foreign secretary David Lammy announced on Monday that 30 out of 350 arms export licenses to Israel would be immediately suspended, as the export of certain arms to Israel may allegedly risk breaching international humanitarian law and the UK’s strategic export controls. Lammy said that the trade and business secretary would not suspend [...]

Gaza health officials announced Monday that Israeli airstrikes over the preceding 24 hours resulted in the deaths of at least 48 Palestinians across the region. The Israeli military carried out the strikes amid a polio vaccination campaign conducted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The campaign was put into [...]

Myanmar’s military court sentenced 144 civilians from Rakhine State to prison for their alleged support to insurgent armed groups, local media reported on Monday. The military court’s verdict comes more than three months after the arrest of the sentenced civilians in a military attack on their village Byain Phyu in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine [...]