A group of NGOs pressed countries on Wednesday to hold an emergency session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an investigation into abuses committed by both sides of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon. 

One of Russia's youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence. 

Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023. 

Canada’s special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools has released the final report of her mandate, providing recommendations on how the government can honor the memory of the thousands of children who were killed at forced assimilation institutions. 

The legislative assembly in Indian-administered Kashmir has passed a resolution demanding the restoration of partial autonomy. 

The resolution comes a month after the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won a regional election last month with promises to return self-rule to the disputed Muslim-majority territory. 

M23 rebels, reportedly backed by Rwanda, seized Sunday the strategic town of Kamandi Gîte, according to media reports. 

Local media cited sources on the ground to report that forced displacements were observed in the wake of the town's fall to the hands of the rebels. 

UNICEF says more than 50 children have been killed in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in the past 48 hours, with the Save the Children charity saying the high number shows “the intensity of this conflict and this war on children.” 

Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote, grew up to become one of the most decorated and influential people to work in Indigenous justice and advocacy. 

A Russian combatant who fought in Ukraine in 2014 has been charged with alleged war crimes by prosecutors in Finland. 

Yan Petrovsky, who is also known as Voislav Toden, will stand trial in Helsinki for five suspected war crimes, said Finland's National Prosecution Authority. 

A group of academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and representatives from the media and civil society organizations gathered in London last week to launch the symbolic “Gaza Tribunal," an independent initiative serving as a "court of humanity and conscience." 

Not a single country has contributed towards reparations for the victims and survivors of the Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) awarding €52.4m (£44m) for this purpose in February, according to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (TFV).