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By Harut Sassounian FILE - Huge crowds of Armenian Americans march during an annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, in Los Angeles, April 24, 2019. ©VOA2022 The Turkish government’s denial of the Armenian Genocide is as futile as a man who repeatedly hits his head against the wall, hoping the wall will give way. For more than a century, successive Turkish governments have done everything in their power to cover up the heinous cri

Investigators described how migrants in detention face “acts of murder, torture, rape and other inhumane acts” A flimsy rubber boat collapsed and sank off Libya's coast, leaving at least 30 people missing and feared dead This photo taken on Monday and handout on Tuesday by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sand Frontieres, MSF) shows a rescue operation of 71 people from a rubber boat in distress, by the crew of the charity’s Geo Barents migrant rescue ship. (AFP) GENEVA/CAIRO

Attacks on the press have increased 85% in the three years since president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power Police officers guard the area where Antonio de la Cruz was killed in Ciudad Victoria. Photograph: Reuters 29 June 2022 Yet another Mexican reporter has been shot to death, bringing to 12 the number of journalists killed this year in the country, one of the world’s most dangerous for media workers. Antonio de la Cruz, 47, was shot on Wednesday as he was leaving hi

By News Desk |June 30, 2022 Human rights activist Arsalan Khan, who was forcibly picked up from his house in Karachi by Rangers personnel, before being released amid social media outrage, has gone on a hunger strike until he gets justice from the the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) governments. Announcing on Twitter that he is locking himself up in his house with his family, and going on a hunger strike, he said he will not call it off un

Photo: © 2022 Ghanaian Times Burkina Faso’s army has given civilians two weeks to evacuate vast areas in northern and southeastern regions of the country in advance of military operations against rebel fighters. The military evacuation order follows a major attack by rebels on June 11 that left at least 100 civilians dead and displaced thousands more. The West African country’s army this week ordered civilians to leave two large “military interest zones” to protect them, but

There was an expectation their rights would be violated when they were turned over to North Korean authorities.

The New York Times By Sui-Lee Wee June 29, 2022 Maria Ressa, the co-founder of the independent news organization, said she would appeal the decision, calling it “harassment and intimidation.” Rappler offices in Pasig City, suburban Manila, on Wednesday.Credit...Maria Tan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Philippine government has again ordered that Rappler, the news website co-founded by Maria Ressa, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, be shut down for violating foreign owner

By Antony Sguazzin DA’s Steenhuisen says anti-migrant sentiment may ‘jump fence’ South Africa has been dogged by bouts of xenophobic violence Action SA President Herman Mashaba Photographer: Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images/Getty Images South African politicians are risking conflict between different local ethnic groups and races by encouraging xenophobia against migrants from other nations on the continent, the leader of the official opposition said. Two new political parties, Ac

Shyndaliev's comments come amid demands by rights activists and some who survived the brutality for more transparency.