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As the United States enacts numerous policies that critics say restrict access to asylum, rights groups have expressed concern that such policies could have especially severe impacts on Indigenous migrants. While narrowing asylum pathways has thrown life into flux for many of those seeking refuge in...

Taliban authorities have further increased restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan in recent months, including in education and employment, the UN said in a report on the human rights situation issued Monday. Taliban’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that only males will be allowed to...

Tunisian security forces have committed "serious abuses" against black African migrants, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday, calling on the European Union to suspend migration control funding to the country. The New York-based watchdog said it had interviewed, since March, more than 20...

Caribbean countries are considering approaching the UN’s International Court of Justice for a legal opinion on demanding compensation from 10 European countries over slavery, as the fight for reparative justice is stepped up, the president of the group of 33 nations in the region has said. Ralph...

The United Nations warned that violence in northeastern Congo has escalated significantly, with more than 40 civilians killed in three days. More than 600 people have been killed and 345,000 displaced in Ituri province so far this year, according to Stephane Dujarric, a United Nation's spokesman...

Gunmen killed 10 people and injured two others at a busy junction in the city of Bamenda in Cameroon’s troubled northwest, the regional governor said on Monday. The Ambazonia Defence Forces, the main separatist group in the English-speaking region which has been fighting since 2017 in protest of...

A prosecutor in Argentina has launched an investigation into potential crimes against humanity in Venezuela following a criminal complaint filed by the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli noted that the complaint pointed to the responsibility of several high-ranking...

The crisis in Myanmar should be referred to the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including widespread sexual violence, an open session at the UN security council will be told. Naw Hser Hser is the first Myanmar human rights defender to brief council members in...

Marking the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Languages, an Aboriginal community in remote Central Australia is working on a ground-breaking new children’s album. Ampe-mape Alyelheme (Kids Sing) is a collection of songs performed and recorded in the endangered Arrernte language...

Iran has relaunched patrols by the so-called morality police as authorities escalate their efforts to enforce the country’s mandatory hijab rules. Saeid Montazeralmahdi, the spokesperson for the Iranian law enforcement force, confirmed on Sunday that police patrols were now operational on foot and...