Swedish prosecutors charged a woman on Thursday with crimes against humanity for acts in Syria against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority between 2014 and 2016, the first time the Nordic country has brought this charge. 

On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the Security Council that the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. 

A year after Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, a complaint accusing Azerbaijani officials of crimes against humanity has been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of two of the victims. The complaint, submitted by the legal team representing victims, includes allegations of forced displacement, persecution, and ethnic cleansing against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.  

Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the South Asian nation into economic ruin.  

The United Nations will support Bangladesh in its reform initiatives, including police and election reforms, undertaken by the interim government, a top official of the world body said on Sunday. 
 
The chief of the UN in Bangladesh, Gwyn Lewis, met Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus here and discussed a wide range of issues, including reforms, corruption, floods, the Rohingya crisis, and the UN-led investigation into the July-August violence, The Daily Star newspaper reported. 
 

South Sudan’s government has announced it is postponing long-delayed general elections until December 2026, citing a lack of preparedness. 

This is the second time the country, which gained independence in 2011, is postponing elections and extending a transitional period that started in February 2020. 

Venezuela committed a crime against humanity with its persecution of dissidents after July’s election, according to a new United Nations report.  

The Bosnian state prosecution has charged Serif Patkovic with violating the Geneva Conventions by allegedly killing an injured prisoner of war, a Croatian Defence Council officer, during the Bosnian war in 1993. At the time, Patkovic was commander of the Bosnian Army’s 7th Muslim Brigade's Second Battalion. 
 
Patkovic is accused of personally shooting and killing the wounded prisoner in the village of Dusina, constituting “war crimes against prisoners of war.” The indictment has been sent to the state court for confirmation. 
 

In the Serb-majority Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a new educational curriculum will teach elementary students about the roles of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, referring to them as leaders in a “defensive war of liberation.”  

New York City’s City Council has passed legislation to study the city's role in slavery and explore reparations for descendants of enslaved people. If signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams, the legislation will create a Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation process, led by the NYC Commission on Racial Equity (CORE), to examine the historical and ongoing effects of 200+ years of legally sanctioned slavery in the city.