The International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating a surge in hostilities in Sudan's Darfur region since mid-April, including reports of killings, rapes, and crimes affecting children, the top prosecutor told the United Nations on Thursday. 

The regular army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been battling in the capital Khartoum and other areas of Sudan in a power struggle that exploded in mid-April. 

A leading human rights group in Haiti warned about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings as the UN Security Council met Friday to discuss the country’s worsening violence. 

In a report issued Thursday, the National Human Rights Defense Network also condemned what it called the government’s inaction. 

Myanmar’s military rulers are preventing life-saving humanitarian aid from reaching people who need it as the country falls deeper into violence, the United Nations human rights chief has said. 

At least 60 female students in Iran have reportedly been barred from university for flouting the country’s mandatory hijab law. 

Videos recently shared by citizen journalists show the harassment of women and girls in subways, streets, and university campuses by disciplinary committees and pro-regime civilians. In defiance, female university students across the country have been recording themselves without headscarves. 

The Kosovo government said on Tuesday it will scale down the police presence and take other measures to lower tensions in a northern region where hostilities between Albanians and ethnic Serbs have reached their highest level since the country declared independence in 2008. 

A mass grave containing the remains of at least 87 people, including ethnic Masalits, has been found in Sudan's West Darfur, the UN said on Thursday. 

The UN Human Rights Office said it had "credible information" that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were responsible for the killings which allegedly took place last month. 

The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, and his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba have been accused of sponsoring violence and abusing critics in harrowing testimony filed before the international criminal court. 

The submissions contain detailed allegations of the torture of opposition figures and activists who report being arrested arbitrarily and being held incommunicado in “torture centers.” 

Crews working on finding mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are moving forward on another step in the process. 

The city announced another two-day test excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery this week and it kicks off this Thursday morning. 

Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians, and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada. 

A Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.” In May, a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019. 

Myanmar’s military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the guerrilla group.