Country report: Syria
September, 2026 By: Burit Boonpirom © Timothy A Clary, AFP Syria has long struggled with instability driven by extremism and sectarian violence. From 1970 to 2024, Syria was ruled by a regime dominated by a religious minority group known as the Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam. This minority-led regime, run by the dictatorship of Hafez al-Assad and later his son Bashar al-Assad, was characterized by mass killings and repression of the population, laying the groundwork for
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Special Report: Discrimination Against Roma in the Yugoslavia Successor States
By Senan Monks October 19, 2026 UN Refugee Camp in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo, where hundreds of Roma people were affected by lead poisoning. Image by European Roma Rights Centre Roma are an ethnic group believed to have first arrived in the lands of the former Yugoslavia in the late medieval period. Roma communities in the Yugoslavia successor states are not homogeneous and come from a variety of cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions. However, they all face comparab
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Oct 19
How Bolivian medicine viewed Indigenous people
Research into early 20th-century medical journals reveals how scientific racism shaped representations of the Andean population By: Caio Ruvenal Published: October 12, 2026 An Aymara Indigenous person photographed by French anthropologists in the early 20th century for an anthropological study. ARTHUR CHERVIN The coronavirus arrived in Bolivia amid uncertainty and panic that gave rise to racism. There are reports in which Indigenous people say they were denied medical care be
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Oct 16
Sexual Violence Online are Harming Women and Young Men
By Morgan E. PettyJohn, Jacob Nason, Kyla Cary October 16, 2026 The online forums and sites that make up the manosphere host a common thread: They mobilize sexual violence against women. Denis Novikov/iStock via Getty Images Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist and an online influencer with millions of followers, faces charges in several countries of allegedly causing physical harm, including rape and sex-trafficking women and girls. Tate is a prominent figure in the mano
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Oct 15
Person shot during encounter with ICE agents in NYC
By John Miller, Julianna Bragg and Mark Morales 08 October 2026 Members of law enforcement gather at the scene after a shooting reportedly involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Bronx borough of New York, October 8. David Dee Delgado/Reuters A man was shot during an encounter with federal immigration agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Police Department. Just after 4 p.m., agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Remov
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Oct 7
Persecution of Transgender People in the United States
Special Report, October 2026 By Grace Harris Transgender rights supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, US, December 4, 2024. © 2024 Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo. Human Rights Watch In the United States (US), conservative backlash against 2SLGBTQ+ rights movements is producing violent, systemic persecution of transgender Americans. Transphobic ideology and political scapegoating have fueled efforts to deny transgender identities, exclude trans people fro
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Oct 7
Russia's Latest Propaganda? A.I. Generated War Songs.
By Steven Lee Myers October 2, 2026 Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States. Credit: Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Russia has a new weapon in its propaganda war against Ukraine: songs generated by artificial intelligence. Hundreds of them — from maudlin ballads to grinding thrash metal — have sprouted on the world’s most popular music streaming platforms, created using a growing number of
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Oct 5
Amnesty International: Abolish ICE
In a new report, Amnesty International documented widespread human rights violations committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies during the Trump administration’s large-scale, militarized immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans and Washington, DC. The report, “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Oper
Libya: Dozens Executed, Scores Remain at Imminent Risk
By Amnesty International September 11, 2026 At least 50 men under sentence of death in eastern Libya are at imminent risk of execution as the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), the de facto authorities in the region, have resumed executions for the first time in Libya since 2010. Since 23 August 2026, the LAAF have carried out arbitrary executions of at least 30 individuals sentenced to death following grossly unfair torture-tainted and secretive trials before military courts.
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Sep 29
Six inmates Dead in Lebanon since General Amnesty law
By L'Orient Today staff September 15, 2026 A man arrives at Roumieh prison, northeast of Beirut, to visit an inmate on April 7, 2006. (Archive photo: Ramzi Haidar/AFP) BEIRUT — Six detainees have died since the Lebanese government passed the general amnesty law around a month ago, a security source told L'Orient Today on Tuesday. Passed on Aug. 12 by Parliament and enacted on Sept. 4 by President Joseph Aoun, the general amnesty law was suspended last Thursday by the Constitu
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Qatar Country Report: July 2026
By Genocide Watch July 29, 2026 Construction workers in Doha, Qatar, November 16, 2022. Credit: 2022 ddp images/AP Photo in Human Rights Watch Since Qatar’s establishment in 1971, the country has faced international condemnation for ongoing human rights abuses. Global demands for reform have focused on Qatar’s exploitative treatment of migrant workers through the kafala labor system, restrictions on public expression, threats of arbitrary arrest, and insufficient protection o
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Serbian Minister Backs ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Kosovo
EU says Serbian minister's statement justifying ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1998-9 is 'inflammatory' – and that such rhetoric 'has no place in Europe'. Serbian forces take up positions opposite the village of Racak in Kosovo, the site of a massacre, January 1999. Photo: EPA/LOUISA GOULIAMAKI. The European Union on Tuesday condemned the “inflammatory” statement of a Serbian government minister supporting the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-99 war. Snezan
