The government plans to roll out a special birth certificate registration program for children born during the war in Northern Uganda. The decision follows estimates from a pilot study done in 2018 in the region which showed that about 6,000 children had been born during the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) war. The study was focused on returnees, comprising mainly young women and girls, who were abducted but returned with children.

A United Nations fact-finding mission has urged cutting off all business with Myanmar's military as part of efforts to hold the army accountable for human rights abuses. In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council said there had been no progress toward resolving the crisis over Myanmar's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, more than one million of whom have fled military "clearance operations" in the northwest Rakhine region.

Algeria’s imminent presidential election looks likely to be postponed, a source said on Friday, as protesters returned to the streets for the 13th successive Friday to demand the removal of the nation’s ruling elite. After two decades in power, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit last month under pressure from protesters and the army, and a presidential election is scheduled for July 4. But a source familiar with the matter said the vote was to be delayed due to difficulties of organizing the logistics in time and opposition on the street.

A longtime politician who served four terms in Congress, Zury Rios is barred by Guatemala’s constitution from running for president. The constitution prohibits anyone who came to power by coup or force from running for president, and the same ban extends to their blood relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity. Rios is the daughter of former dictator General Efrain Rios Montt, who seized power in a military coup and was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacres of 1,771 Maya Ixil civilians.

The German Historical Museum has announced it will return a 15th century monument to Namibia after it was taken during the colonial era. At a ceremony, German Culture Minister Monika Grütters said it was a "clear signal that we are committed to coming to terms with our colonial past." Namibia's ambassador to Germany, Andreas Guibeb, called it "important as a step for us to reconcile with our colonial past and the trail of humiliation and systematic injustice that it left behind."

Sudan’s former president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been charged over his role in the killing of protesters during demonstrations that led to his ouster last month, the nation’s public prosecutor said in a statement on Monday.

The head of Venezuela’s national assembly, Juan Guaidó, has asked for a meeting with the US military for “strategic and operational planning” in the power struggle between the Guaidó camp and the government of Nicolás Maduro.

In South Africa, relatives of deceased freedom fighters are still waiting for the deaths of their loved ones to be prosecuted. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has admitted that political interference led to almost 300 apartheid-era cases being ignored. Now, the families waiting for justice are asking the state capture inquiry to look into how the NPA was captured when it refused to investigate those apartheid crimes. 

The National Human Rights Commission could withdraw its representative from a recommendation committee formed to select new officials for the two transitional justice bodies in Nepal. The move is seen as a last resort to put pressure on the government to revise the amendment bill to the National Human Rights Commission Act of 2012, and to initiate the process to amend the existing transitional justice act.

An ad hoc parliamentary commission established to prepare a resolution that condemns crimes by Serbian forces during the Kosovo war has approved a draft text and is expected to send it to parliament for a vote next week. The draft resolution focuses on accusing Serbia of committing genocide against ethnic Albanians.