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The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry on Thursday reported that the wave of violent attacks that engulfed coastal and western-central Syria in March 2025 may constitute war crimes, and urged accountability to restore public confidence in the authorities. Evidence adduced in the report painted a harrowing picture of widespread massacres targeting Alawi communities, documenting crimes [...]

A Guatemalan court on Tuesday convicted six former officials for their roles in the 2017 fire at the state-run Hogar Seguro “Virgen de la Asunción” that ultimately claimed the lives of 41 girls and injured 15 others. The facility had long faced allegations of abuse and overcrowding. After the blaze, Judge Ingrid Cifuentes directed prosecutors [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron sent a letter to Cameroonian President Paul Biya, dated July 30 but released on Tuesday, in which he officially acknowledged his country’s use of repressive violence before, during, and after Cameroon’s war of independence. Macron stated that the historians of the Franco-Cameroonian Commission studied the war that began in 1956, finding [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called on Ghanaian authorities to swiftly and comprehensively conclude inquiries into the July 30 assault on local JoyNews reporter Carlos Lorlornyo Atsu Calony and threats against camera operator Jonas Zodzi Voergborlo. The CPJ urged transparent investigations into the attacks against these journalists. CPJ Africa program coordinator Muthoki [...]

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan worsened on Tuesday, as UN officials said they were “deeply alarmed” by a large-scale assault on El Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur, and the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp. The attack, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, killed at least 40 civilians and [...]

The Directorate-General for the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations on Tuesday issued a joint statement addressing Israeli restrictions preventing NGO’s from providing life-saving aid to Gaza. The joint statement was signed by 27 “partners on aid to Gaza,” including foreign ministers of 24 countries. Among these were the UK, France, the Netherlands and [...]

The US Department of State released its 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, also referred to as the Human Rights Report, months later than usual on Tuesday. The tone and scope notably changed from the 2023 report, altering or removing references to human rights abuses based on sexuality, gender or race, as well as [...]

A coalition of rights organizations on Wednesday issued a joint statement urging the Maldives to reconsider proposed legislative amendments that would reinstate the death penalty for drug trafficking, citing concerns that the punishment is archaic, inhumane, and runs contrary to international human rights standards. The nine organizations expressed alarm after Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, President of [...]

US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order directing President Donald Trump’s administration to expand and sanitize holding areas for ICE detainees at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, following a lawsuit filed by Peruvian immigrant Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado, citing cramped, unsanitary, and inhumane conditions. Judge Kaplan mandated that, by [...]

UN experts on Wednesday condemned Israeli attacks deliberately targeting Gaza’s healthcare system as gross violations of international law and “medicide.” In a UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner press release, UN experts defined “medicide” as the deliberate targeting of healthcare infrastructure and workers as a “component of the intentional creation of conditions” for [...]