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The United Nations Human Rights Council has rejected Eritrea’s attempt to shut down an independent investigation into alleged rights abuses, in a move hailed as vital to preventing impunity. Eritrea’s rare bid to scrap the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on its human rights record was defeated...

Three former El Salvador military officers were given lengthy prison sentences over the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war. It means former Defense Minister Gen. José Guillermo García, 91, former treasury police director Col. Francisco Morán, 93, and Col. Mario...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made a rare visit to Istanbul to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in what Yerevan described as a “historic” step towards regional peace. The visit was part of the two countries’ efforts to normalize ties strained over historical disputes...

A retired Nicaraguan military officer turned outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega was shot to death at his home in Costa Rica, authorities said. Roberto Samcam, 67, had been living in exile since July 2018 when paramilitaries assaulted his home in Nicaragua. Police say a man entered the...

A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in his home country—including murder and torture—by a German court. The 40-year-old man, Alaa Mousa, worked as a junior doctor in an army hospital and a military intelligence prison in Homs and Damascus in Syria, in...

Sri Lanka’s most recently unearthed mass grave has led to the discovery of 19 bodies, including those of three babies. The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of the island’s 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he was restoring the names of Confederate officers to seven U.S. military bases. Trump made the announcement during a speech at Fort Bragg after watching a demonstration that includes 600 paratroopers landing on a runway and earth-shaking artillery...

A former defense minister of El Salvador and two retired colonels have been convicted of the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war, a lawyer for families of the deceased said. A five-member jury sentenced the defendants, now in their 80s or 90s, to 15 years in prison...

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human rights violations at militia-run detention facilities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was “shocked” by revelations...

Journalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organized crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International. Reporters have been physically assaulted and told they will be shot, stabbed, raped or blown up, making Northern Ireland...