NBC News
- Sep 30, 2022
Russian Troops Raped and Tortured Children in Ukraine: U.N.
The findings by the United Nations experts are the latest allegations of war crimes against Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. A Russian soldier patrols in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 12 . Alexander Nemenov / AFP via Getty Images file Sept. 23, 2022, 12:38 PM EDT By Dan De Luce Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a “large number” of executions and committed other war crimes, according to a United Nations investigation by legal experts. S
kmilby73
- Sep 29, 2022
Iran carries out strikes against Kurds in Iraq
By: Mustafa Salim Updated September 28, 2022 at 4:02 p.m. EDT|Published September 28, 2022 at 11:19 a.m. EDT Fighters with the Kurdish Komala Party inspect damage Wednesday after an attack on their headquarters in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah province. (Gailan Haji/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) BAGHDAD — Iran carried out deadly cross-border attacks Wednesday in northern Iraq, targeting the headquarters of three Iranian Kurdish opposition parties who support the ongoing demonstrations inside I
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal
- Sep 29, 2022
Peoples’ Tribunal Judgment on the Murder of Journalists
On 19 September, in Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague, the panel of judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) delivered its judgment following a process of public hearings inaugurated in November 2021 at the request of Safer World for Truth Coalition – composed by Free Press Unlimited, Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, and supported by the Syrian Centre for Press and Freedom of Expression and the Centre for Justice and Accountability – and articulat
BBC
- Sep 28, 2022
Cuba Family Code: legalizes same-sex marriage
By: BBC A man casts his ballot on Sunday in Havana Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum. About two-thirds of the population voted to approve reforms in a new Family Code, which will also allow surrogate pregnancies and give gay couples the right to adopt children. It marks a big moment for Cuba, which saw gay people persecuted and sent to work camps in the 1960s and 70s. However, there was significant opposition to the reforms among religious
Al Jazeera
- Sep 28, 2022
Mahsa Amini: What We Know After 11 Days of Protests in Iran
The demonstrations after death of young woman have continued amid internet restrictions imposed for ‘security reasons’. Demonstrators gather around a burning barricade during a protest in Tehran on September 19 [AFP] By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – Protests that erupted in many parts of Iran following the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, entered their 11th day on Tuesday, even as authorities continued to restrict access to the internet. The 22-year-old was arrested earl
Amnesty International
- Sep 28, 2022
Afghanistan: Taliban torture and execute Hazaras
Photographs of those unlawfully killed by the Taliban in Ghor province of Afghanistan Six people killed during a night raid on a family home in Ghor province, including a 12-year-old girl Ongoing Taliban killings indicate a pattern of attacks on ethnic minorities and members of the former security forces Taliban fighters killed six Hazara people in a deliberate attack on the ethnic minority group in Afghanistan’s Ghor province, Amnesty International said today following a new
Human Rights Watch
- Sep 26, 2022
Hardliner Takes Charge In Burundi
New Prime Minister’s Appointment Shows Little Desire for Reform Security minister Gervais Ndirakobuca is sworn in as the new Burundi Prime Minister in Bujumbura on September 7, 2022 (2022 AFP via Getty Images) On September 7, Burundi’s president, Évariste Ndayishimiye, removed government officials he said he no longer trusted. Most significantly, he replaced the prime minister, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni. Given Bunyoni’s poor record on human rights, including at one time oversee
South Sudan: Rape Survivors Left Without help
Published by the UNHR Office of the High Commissioner on September 22, 2022 Women wait at a food distribution site in a United Nations camp outside Juba, South Sudan, similar to the cite where the Bentiu attacks occurred. (Kassie Bracken/The New York Times) NEW YORK (22 September 2022) --The war in Ukraine has drastically cut funding for emergency medical and psychosocial care for victims of sexual violence in South Sudan, said the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in
Genocide Watch
- Sep 24, 2022
Khmer Rouge Trials End
Khieu Samphan, 91, the last surviving Khmer Rouge leader, during his hearing at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh on Thursday.Credit...Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, via Associated Press The last surviving leader of the regime that killed 1.7 million Cambodians lost his appeal on Thursday. By Seth Mydans New York Times Sept. 22, 2022 For more than 15 years, a court in a military camp on the outskirts of Phnom P
The Guardian
- Sep 23, 2022
Russia Protests: 1,300 Arrested at Anti-War Demonstrations
More than 500 detained in both Moscow and St Petersburg, says monitoring group, after Putin orders call-up of military reservists Anti-war protests break out across Russia after Putin announces partial mobilization Security forces detained more than 1,300 people in Russia on Wednesday at protests denouncing mobilisation, a rights group said, hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first military draft since the second world war. The independent OVD-Info protest
Nat Hill
- Sep 23, 2022
Genocide Warning: Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh
Firefighters walk in the ruins of a building in the Armenian village of Sotk that was reportedly hit by shelling. Source. By Nat Hill Genocide Warning: September 2022 Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning due to Azerbaijan’s unprovoked military attacks on Armenia and on the unrecognized Armenian Republic of Artsakh. By the end of its 2020 war with Armenia, Azerbaijan had regained control of all six provinces it lost to Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A