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Thirty-one Australian women and children forcibly held for four years in a Syrian detention camp have told the federal government to prove it cannot bring them home, or “bring their bodies to the court” in Australia. In filings before the federal court, Save the Children Australia—representing 11...

Egyptian authorities have detained at least 73 campaign volunteers for a challenger to incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the December election, a rights group said Tuesday. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said the detainees were volunteers working for presidential hopeful and...

Six Palestinian citizens of Israel have been killed in two separate shootings, police said, the latest fatalities in a crime wave hitting the country’s Palestinian minority. Five members of the same family were killed on Wednesday in a shooting in northern Israel. The three men and two women were...

Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week. In a statement, they said their self-declared Republic of...

Russia is formally seeking to rejoin the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, nearly 18 months after it was suspended from the body following its invasion of Ukraine. Any move to reinstate Russia would be met with fury from the West, with several leading NATO states repeatedly insisting that Moscow...

The consideration and passage by Uganda's government of one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws have unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly committed by private individuals, rights groups said on Thursday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was enacted in May, prescribes the...

At least 35,178 people have suffered sexual, gender, and reproductive violence in Colombia's armed conflict, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal said on Wednesday as it opened an investigation. Women, girls, and people with diverse sexual orientations, identities, and expressions of...

A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for "endangering state security." Rahile Dawut's sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018 conviction, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group. China has been accused of crimes against humanity...

United Nations investigators say that human rights violations and abuse in Syria are sowing the seeds for further violence and radicalization, despite diplomatic efforts to stabilize the situation in the country, including through its re-admission to the League of Arab States. The three-member...

A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week. More than 13,000 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians. Armenia's prime minister...