by admin | Nov 2, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP ADDIS ABABA: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged the United Nations and the international community to “maintain pressure” on the Ethiopian government to ensure justice for victims of atrocities, one year after the end of the Tigray war. The...
by admin | Oct 27, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria: Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say, in the wake of fresh mass arrests of...
by admin | Oct 12, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] In a concerning development, several decades after the conclusion of Mexico’s “dirty war,” the military appears to have impeded a government-led investigation into human rights violations.Investigators had decided to withdraw from the inquiry...
by admin | Oct 12, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] The top human rights body of the United Nations voted on Wednesday to establish a fact-finding mission to scrutinize allegations of wrongdoing within Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Sudan plunged into turmoil in mid-April when longstanding tensions between the...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] The United States has imposed sanctions on Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, a Sudanese paramilitary commander, for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his forces during their extended conflict with Sudan’s army. The conflict in Sudan has been...