A UN fact-finding mission has determined that evidence of atrocities carried out during the siege and takeover of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher points to genocide.

The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) said this month Timor-Leste had opened its own case against the junta for both war crimes and crimes against humanity. A file photo of a group of women holding torches as they protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar July 14, 2021 (Photo: REUTERS/Stringer) YANGON: Myanmar's junta on Sunday (Feb 15) announced the ejection of Timor-Leste's top representative in the country, after a rights group said Dili had opened a legal c

Human rights report alleges record extrajudicial killings by Punjab’s police unit set up to combat organised crime. Pakistan's foremost rights group HRCP has alleged that Punjab's specialised police unit has killed more than 900 people in what it termed 'extrajudicial encounters' [Mohsin Raza/Reuters] Islamabad, Pakistan – When armed officers from Pakistan’s Crime Control Department raided Zubaida Bibi’s home in Bahawalpur city in southern Punjab province last November, they

After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NSPM-7. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Oversight of the Department of Justice" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 11, 2026. [ Roberto Schmidt|AFP |via Getty Images] ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI for the first time acknowledged the existence of a secret list of domestic terror

© SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images Responding to the conviction and 20-year sentence of Ruben Vardanyan, the last of 16 ethnic Armenians put on trial by Azerbaijan in connection with their roles in Azerbaijan’s break-away region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Karabakh) prior to its takeover by Azerbaijani forces in 2023, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The conviction of the 16 defendants, culminating in this sentence aga

Ramallah, West Bank – Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons over the past two and a half years, some during torture while others as a result of medical neglect by prison authorities, rights groups say.

The Architect of the Tyrannical Surveillance State, Open Proponent of Dystopian Fascism who Allegedly Injects the Blood of Children to Stay Young photo credit: HR News substack There’s a version of the Peter Thiel story that Silicon Valley loves to tell. Self-made genius. Libertarian visionary. Contrarian thinker who saw things others missed. PayPal, Palantir, Facebook — the man has a golden touch, and he isn’t afraid to say uncomfortable things out loud. That story is real.

Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich at a 2023 cabinet meeting (Photo: Alamy / Ronen Zvulun) Britain’s defence ministry awarded a £10 million contract to an Israeli-owned arms firm which operates under the authority of sanctioned minister Bezalel Smotrich, Declassified can reveal. Based in Newcastle, Pearson Engineering was acquired by Israel’s state-owned arms giant R

As we approach the 4th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we take a look at the war against cultural heritage. Russia is accused of looting art collections. A crime seen as a direct attempt to eliminate Ukrainian’s identity. The construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, by Albin Havdzynskyi. Photo : © Linda Strautman's archives Albin Stanislavovych Havdzynskyi was born in 1923 in the village of Bobryk Pershyi, Liubashivsky district, Odesa region. When

The move would mark the first time since 1967 that Israel has absorbed part of the West Bank into its territory, amid a series of measures entrenching annexation