Thousands of demonstrators in New Zealand are protesting the new government's policies towards indigenous Māori communities. 

The new center-right coalition government in Wellington plans to limit the use of Māori language, review affirmative action policies, and reassess how the country's founding document—the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840—is interpreted in modern legislation. 

A Dutch court is set to hear a case accusing the state of complicity in war crimes in Gaza due to its supply of components for Israeli bombers. 

Launched by human rights organizations against The Netherlands, the case, which opens on Monday, says that the Dutch state is complicit in the alleged war crimes due to the export of F-35 fighter jet parts. 

A new report by a human rights group which closely follows how many prisoners are executed in Iran each month offers a chilling look at the surge in capital punishment there. 

The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has documented at least 100 executions in Iran over the past month, indicating a stark increase of more than 50 percent in comparison to the previous month. 

Ukraine has launched an investigation into the “execution” of its unarmed soldiers by Russian forces despite the soldiers signaling their intention to surrender. 

The United States imposed sanctions Monday on three Sudanese individuals accused of undermining “peace, security, and stability” in the conflict-stricken African nation. 

El Salvador has seen "an alarming regression" of human rights protections during President Nayib Bukele's government, a trend that has intensified under a sweeping anti-gang crackdown, Amnesty International said in a report published on Tuesday. 

On October 25, the African Union (AU) and European Union officially launched their joint Initiative for Transitional Justice in Africa (ITJA) in Addis Ababa. The project will take place over a three-year period and will promote national transitional justice processes in Africa, in line with the AU Transitional Justice Policy and its roadmap. The ITJA has several unique features that, if embraced and advanced by all actors, have the potential to trailblaze a new and inspiring path to peace, justice, and sustainable development on the African continent. 

Illegal chemical weapons attacks killed and injured thousands during Syria's civil war, many of them children, but more than a decade later, the perpetrators go unpunished. 

That could change under an initiative to create a new tribunal for such atrocities launched in The Hague on Thursday. 

German authorities said Thursday they had arrested a French woman who allegedly committed war crimes is Syria after joining the Islamic State extremist group. 

Germany’s federal prosecutor said the woman, who was only identified as Samra N. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested Tuesday in the western city of Trier.