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Nepal's National Assembly on August 22 unanimously endorsed the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act amid reservations from a section of the conflict victims, and national and international human rights watchdogs. A group of victims and human...

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held rallies in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee. Refugees from children to the elderly waved placards and chanted slogans on August 25 in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, demanding...

Hamas has rejected new Israeli conditions put forward in Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, casting further doubt on the chances of a breakthrough in the latest United States-backed effort to end the 10-month-old war. A Hamas delegation left Cairo on August 25 after meeting with...

Successive Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza have displaced 90 percent of its 2.1 million residents since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, the top U.N. humanitarian official for the Palestinian territory says. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says she and President Joe Biden are working to...

A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh’s interim government and other stakeholders beginning on August 22 to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights violations during the recent deadly violence in the South Asian country, officials said. About 300 people, many of them university...

The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, accusing the human rights watchdog of “"spreading propaganda.” Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan's human rights situation after...

South Sudan is preparing to stage its first election as an independent country. What should have been a unifying coming-of-age moment for the embryonic state is fast becoming a source of mounting anxiety. The vote was conceived as the finale to a peace agreement signed five years ago to pull the...

Ukraine’s parliament has voted to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), with politicians billing the move as a means of enabling the country to “punish” suspected Russian war criminals. Parliament voted on August 21 to ratify the Rome Statute, which paves the way for full membership of the...

Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major government policy address in which he promised to support the Rohingya community seeking refuge in the country and maintain Bangladesh’s garment trade. Speaking in front of diplomats and UN representatives, Yunus pledged...

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the United Kingdom’s counterterrorism strategy on how to best tackle threats by “extremist ideologies” including misogyny. Other ideological trends to be investigated by the Home Office include “Islamism” and far-right “extremism.” Cooper said...