Petitioners on Western Sahara Highlight Human Rights Concerns
By United Nations Meetings Coverage and Press Releases October 7, 2026 United Nations Audiovisual Library Give Morocco’s autonomy plan a chance, the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) heard from some petitioners today, even as others underscored that there should be no compromise on the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination. Western Sahara was inscribed on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories in 1963. In 1991, the United Nations Mission for
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Oct 10
Nepal, Malaysia renew three-year deal on migrant worker rights
Pact targets forced labour, recruitment fees and rights violations as Malaysia reports 46 complaints involving Nepali workers. Author: Hom Karki The National Human Rights Commission of Nepal (NHRC) and Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) have renewed a three-year agreement to investigate and monitor rights violations involving Nepali migrant workers and improve their access to justice. The memorandum of understanding, covering 2026–2028, was signed on Wednesday at SU
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Chaos As Thugs Attack Nigeria democratic congress (NDC) Supporters At Enugu Airport Despite Police Presence
The incident raises fresh concerns about the safety of opposition party members and the freedom of political groups to organise and participate in democratic activities without intimidation. Chaos erupted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu State on Saturday after thugs attacked members and supporters of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) who had gathered to welcome the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Christian Chinyeaka Ohaa. In a video on socia
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FBI arrests California woman accused of spying on Taiwan leader's family for China
By Jamie Ding, Hui Zhong Wu, and Jamie Stengle October 5th, 2026 The FBI has arrested a California real estate agent at Los Angeles International Airport as she was leaving the country and accused her of spying on the Taiwan president’s family for China ABC News Live The FBI arrested a California real estate agent as she prepared to fly to China, accusing her of secretly working for Beijing to surveil the president of Taiwan's family in the U.S., federal officials said. The c
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Votes Being Counted in First Round of Elections to Czech Senate
October 10, 2026 By: Radio Prague International Credit: Jana Jiriková, Radio Prague International The first round of elections to one-third of the seats in the upper chamber of the Czech Parliament, the Senate, took place on Friday and Saturday, when polling stations closed at 2 p.m. Just before 6 p.m. on Saturday, when around two-thirds of votes had been counted, turnout in elections to the Czech Senate stood at 42 percent at national level. With so many votes yet to be coun
African Union Delegation Meets Congo Rebels, Calls for Continued Peace Efforts
Reuters October 7, 2026 Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, both African Union facilitators, attend a meeting as part of mediation efforts to discuss the peace process in efforts to negotiate an end to the war with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 5, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Wor
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Oct 9
U.S. Moves Spy Drones to Ecuador to Combat Drug Trafficking
By Lucas Reynoso 7 October 2026 An MQ-9 Reaper drone during a training mission in Nevada. William Rio Rosado (EFE) The United States has sent spy drones to Colombia and Ecuador to support both countries’ actions against organized crime, two military sources told the newspaper The New York Times. The aircraft involved are an undetermined number of MQ-9 Reapers that had been stationed in Africa. Although their primary roles are linked to surveillance, they can be used in offens
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Dodik declared Bosnia ‘dead’. Irrelevant rhetoric or threat?
By Aljazeera Staff October 4, 2026 Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Speaking at the final rally of his right-wing alliance ahead of Bosnia’s October 4 election, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik delivered a predictably controversial statement. “Bosnia-Herzegovina is dead. It is an impossible country, it makes no sense,” Dodik told supporters of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) party in Banja Luka on Friday. “It is now nothing more than an empty shell … for those
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CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances
By Breaking Burundi August 21, 2026 CNIDH says its prison visits uncovered widespread violations, including unlawful detention and cases involving civilians held for non-criminal offenses. Martin Blaise Nyaboho says 135 detainees were held beyond legal limits / CNIDH Burundi’s National Independent Human Rights Commission has said violations of human rights persist in the country, citing arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses
Breaking Burundi
Oct 9
Mass Trials Put Hundreds in One Dock in El Salvador
By James Wagner October 7, 2026 Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense. Credit: Alex Peña/Getty Across El Salvador, hundreds of inmates appear in court by video simultaneously for a single, joint hearing. Some lawyers say that they are first meeting their clients on the same day as their trial. And individual anonymous witnesses are testifying again
The New York Times
Oct 9
Ex-Prisoners Reveal Torture, Scripted TV Confessions of January Protest Detainees in Isfahan
October 9, 2026 by Roghiyeh Rezaei IranWire has obtained accounts detailing severe torture and forced confessions extracted from several January 2026 protesters currently facing execution. Three former inmates of Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, held between late January and mid-summer 2026, told IranWire that most of the young men executed or facing capital punishment in Dastgerd hail from working-class and marginalized backgrounds, working as laborers or coming from working-clas
IranWire
Oct 9
Group of 20 graduates rescued after being abducted in Nigeria
Gabriela Pomeroy and Chris Ewokor, BBC Africa, Abuja Nigerian police, pictured at the site of a previous abduction in June, said they rescued the young people | Credit: Reuters A group of 20 young people who were abducted in south-east Nigeria last week have been rescued, police say. The graduates were kidnapped on 1 October while they were travelling for a national community service programme in the Abia and Akwa Ibom states in the south of the country. They were rescued by
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