United Nations investigators say that human rights violations and abuse in Syria are sowing the seeds for further violence and radicalization, despite diplomatic efforts to stabilize the situation in the country, including through its re-admission to the League of Arab States. 

The three-member Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented this bleak outlook Friday to the UN Human Rights Council. 

A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week. 

More than 13,000 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians. 

Ethiopia told the United Nations on Saturday it wanted quicker implementation of a peace deal in Tigray, including on disarmament of former rebels. 

Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in November last year reached an accord in Pretoria that has largely halted a brutal two-year war. 

A UN-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela said Wednesday the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with threats, surveillance, and harassment as President Nicolás Maduro faces a re-election contest next year. 

The United Nations said Wednesday that Afghanistan's Taliban had committed more than 1,600 human rights violations during arrests and detentions of people, including women, and it urged the de facto authorities to cease the abuses. 

A delegation of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis returned to Sanaa on Tuesday after five days of talks in Saudi Arabia. 

Riyadh on Wednesday praised the "positive results" of the negotiations with the rebels without releasing many details on the discussions to end the war tearing Yemen apart. 

Negotiators from Azerbaijan and the breakaway Armenian republic in Nagorno-Karabakh have held talks over the future of the region, with Baku claiming to fully control it after a military offensive this week. 

The resting place of the more than 800,000 people killed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide was among sites in three continents added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list as the United Nations cultural body ends a moratorium on considering memorial sites for human suffering. 

Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s last remaining rebel groups announced Tuesday that they will start peace talks next month and enter a 10-month ceasefire that is expected to decrease violence against civilians. 

Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA)—a military school turned secret detention center—has been named a United Nations World Heritage site in an effort to preserve its grisly history. 

Some 5,000 people disappeared behind its walls. Many were never seen again.