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Myanmar’s military has consistently targeted civilians and their communities as a form of collective punishment in the country’s southeast since the army seized power in early 2021, a rights group said in a report released Friday. Documented airstrikes on villages examined by researchers from the...

New Zealand's parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori. First signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs...

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament on Tuesday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care. “It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong. And it should never...

The legislative assembly in Indian-administered Kashmir has passed a resolution demanding the restoration of partial autonomy. The resolution comes a month after the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won a regional election last month with promises to return self-rule to the disputed Muslim...

Bagladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday ordered jail authorities to produce 14 political leaders, a retired Supreme Court judge, five former police officers, and a dismissed army officer before it. The three-member tribunal, led by its chairman Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder...

Former Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday said former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte could be held liable for crimes against humanity under a 15-year-old Philippine law in connection with the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) that occurred during his administration’s bloody war on drugs...

Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated Sunday as the eighth president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, completing his journey from an ex-general accused of rights abuses during the dark days of Indonesia’s military dictatorship to the presidential palace. After decades of dictatorship...

A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor...

Bangladesh’s top religious party leader says he supports the extradition of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina to face trial for crimes against humanity in the same tribunal that convicted his colleagues. Shafiqur Rahman is the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, whose members were hounded, driven underground and...

Japan’s Upper and Lower Houses have passed a long sought-after bill to provide compensation to people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilized under the former Eugenic Protection Law. The bill was compiled by a cross-party group of Diet members in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in July...