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Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Accra Reparation Conference adds to the growing demands for reparations after...

The government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo officially announced Nicaragua’s withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS). This process began two years ago after they became impatient with frequent allegations by the OAS of human rights and democracy violations in Nicaragua. The...

Philippine human rights campaigner Leila de Lima has been granted bail, according to her lawyer, putting her a step closer to freedom after nearly seven years behind bars. De Lima was “triumphant” on Monday after a judge granted her bail. One of the most outspoken critics of former President Rodrigo...

The president of the United States and two of his cabinet members are being sued for failing to prevent and aiding and abetting “genocide” in Gaza. A federal complaint filed on Monday against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, accuses them...

French judicial authorities issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother and two army generals for alleged complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, lawyers for Syrian victims said Wednesday. They include a 2013 chemical attack on rebel-held...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) besieged a camp for displaced people on November 2 after attacking a nearby army base in West Darfur. Over the next three days, the paramilitary group committed what may amount to the single largest mass killing since the civil war erupted in April. Local monitors...

Victoria Villarruel, the candidate for the vice-presidency of Argentina on the ticket headed by the ultra-conservative Javier Milei, has once again taken a swipe at the country’s historical memory. On Tuesday, she complained that the largest detention and extermination center under the military...

David McBride—a former army lawyer who revealed information about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan—could be facing a “life sentence” if found guilty in a trial that started on Monday. While Australia has established an independent special investigator into alleged war crimes committed by...

The library of the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial will be open to the public starting November 15, according to the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission (HRVVMC). The HRVVMC envisions the library as “the most comprehensive and authoritative source of knowledge and...

Gaza's largest hospital reports that it has buried more than 100 people in a mass grave, as it says bodies decompose in its courtyard and babies are dying because their incubators have no power. The conditions at Al-Shifa Hospital, and other medical facilities in Gaza, are worsening to new...