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Saudi border guards have fired small arms and sometimes mortar shells at Ethiopian migrants trying to enter the Gulf kingdom through Yemen, killing hundreds of people since last year, New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged on Monday. The group's report draws on interviews with...

It has been 10 years since the chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. In 2013, amidst Syria’s war, the Syrian regime attacked the towns of Zamalka, Ein Tarma, and Irbin in Ghouta countryside with a nerve agent. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights...

A Russian court has ordered the closure of the Sakharov Center—a prominent human rights organization that preserved the legacy of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov—in the latest move in a widespread crackdown on dissent. Moscow City Court said in a statement on Friday that it decided to...

Armed gunmen killed at least 23 people and wounded 12 in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Sunday. Sidi Mohamed El Bechir—governor of the Bandiagara region where the attack took place—said unidentified men killed dozens of people and set fire to several homes in the village of...

The Nicaraguan government has seized a prominent Jesuit-run university—The Central American University—in the capital Managua, in President Daniel Ortega’s latest effort to lash out against the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus—the Jesuit order that runs the school—told reporters that the...

Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has said the country’s planned referendum on an Indigenous “voice” to parliament should be called off because it is just “window dressing.” Thorpe, who is a Gunnai, Gunditjmara, and Djab Wurrung woman and a granddaughter of the revered Indigenous matriarch Alma Thorpe...

Tripoli’s worst armed clashes in a year have killed 55 people and wounded 146, Libyan media outlets have reported, as a truce took hold. Fighting erupted on Monday night and raged through Tuesday between the influential 444 Brigade and the Special Deterrence Force, two of the many armed groups that...

The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at Amsterdam City Hall on Thursday...

More than 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighboring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the UN warned on Tuesday. Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated...

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights says it fully supports calls to search for the remains of Indigenous women believed to be the victims of an alleged Winnipeg serial killer. "In this situation, the human rights implications are clear," Isha Khan—CEO of the Winnipeg-based museum—wrote in an August...