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Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in northern Ukraine during the early weeks of the war, including attacks on civilians that qualify as war crimes, the United Nations has found. In a report published last Tuesday, the three members of the Independent...

“There is no place where you find a registry for war victims and yet they want to be known and remembered,” said Norbert Mao, Uganda's Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, on Tuesday, while launching a report on reparations for survivors of armed rebellion and sexual violence in the...

Political prisoners in Yangon’s Insein Prison have revealed the names of officials and staff there involved in torture and rights abuses of prisoners of conscience. Their statement called on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and international agencies to investigate...

Seraphine Warren stepped foot in Washington, having completed her nearly 2,400-mile prayer walk from Sweetwater, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation which she began on June 15, 2022. She undertook the journey in honor of her aunt Ella Mae Begay, a Dineh (Navajo) elder who disappeared 16 months ago, and to...

Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and the country's "so-called Morality Police," saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they behave in public. The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police...

Women demonstrated across various cities in Afghanistan after dozens of mostly young women were killed in an attack on a school last week. Dressed in a long black abaya with her face mask secured, university professor Zahra Mosawi walked the streets of the ancient Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif to...

A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan has called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth year, saying there is no valid reason in Islam for the ban. The appeal from Taliban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai on...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

At least 76 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces during 11 days of unrest sparked by the death of a woman in custody, activists say, and hundreds more, including journalists, have been arrested. Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based organisation, accused authorities of using...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all journalists arrested while covering mass protests around the country and restore blocked internet access. CPJ has learned from multiple sources inside Iran that as of Monday...