Victims, civil society advocates, policymakers, and development partners recently met for a high-level policy roundtable on integrating mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in Ethiopia’s transitional justice process. Organized by ICTJ and the Advocacy Center for Democracy and Development, the convening offered a space for participants to discuss the need for MHPSS and how to improve access to it across the country.

Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing "genocide" in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in a report slammed by Israel. 

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry said it had found evidence that "Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by Israeli security forces". 

This, it said, was a key factor in establishing "the genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the larger Palestinian group in Gaza". 

Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds. 

Sudan has been hit by a devastating civil war since 2023, following a fallout between the army the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). 

The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti. 

The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the deployment of significant military reinforcements by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) around the city and spoke of an "imminent risk of mass atrocities" in El-Obeid, North Kordofan. 

A new report published on Monday says denial of the war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars is routinely used by those in power in Serbia to discredit opponents, civil society organizations, and independent media, particularly during periods of political tension and public dissent. 

The report by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia, covering 2025, documents widespread denial of the war crimes committed during the 1990s both by officials and institutions in Serbia. 

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar has launched a wide-ranging reform drive aimed at pulling the state out of the captivity into which it was forced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. 

In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Magyar announced a raft of economic, political, and legal measures dubbed “Operation Cleansing Fire”. The plan will see the Tisza Party government install a new constitution, purge the country’s institutions, establish a new anti-corruption office, and unseat the president. 

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. 

Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released by electoral authorities early Monday. 

Iran’s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East, even as discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed so far and violence broke out again in Lebanon. 

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Islamabad comes as technical teams were working on details of the deal following high-level negotiations in Switzerland Monday led by U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. 

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana on Friday urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans after a landmark U.N. resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity.” 

The “Next Steps” conference in the Ghanaian capital of Accra issued a declaration calling on countries involved in the Atlantic slave trade to “offer full, formal and unconditional apologies as a foundational step towards reconciliation, trust-building and reparatory justice.”