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
Bosnian Serb 'Iron Lady' War Crimes Convict Plavsic Dies
By AFP October 1, 2026 Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, who was found guilty of war crimes, has died aged 96 © POOL / ANP/AFP Former Bosnian Serb president and war crimes convict Biljana Plavsic, known as the 'Iron Lady', has died in the Serbian capital on Thursday, aged 96, local media reported. Plavsic surrendered to a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in 2001 after learning that she was the subject of a secret indictment. In 2003, the court sentenced her to
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Oct 3
Roma Rights Network Reports Persecution in Europe
By European Roma Rights Centre August 7, 2026 Brussels, 11 August 2026: The Roma Rights Network today published the first issue of the relaunched Roma Rights Review, the most comprehensive assessment of the human rights situation of Europe's largest ethnic minority. Built on the direct testimony, casework, analysis, and field documentation of 34 member organisations across 18 countries, the Roma Rights Review stands as the authoritative source on the situation of Roma Rights
ERRC
Sep 28
Pavel at the UN: Russia threatens Europe; AI needs rules
September 24, 2026 By: Vit Pohanka Petr Pavel|Photo: Mehmet Eser, Reuters Czech President Petr Pavel used his address to the UN General Assembly to warn that Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens European security and has consequences far beyond the continent. He urged continued pressure on Moscow alongside serious diplomatic efforts. Pavel also backed Czechia’s bid for a Security Council seat and called for international oversight of artificial intelligence. Russia’s aggres
Yale Program Tracking Stolen Ukrainian Children At Risk
By Alex Raufoglu September 09, 2026 Ukrainian children returning home in February after being held in Russia. (RFE/RFL) WASHINGTON -- Researchers at Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab working to track Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine could see their positions eliminated by December unless new funding is secured, the lab’s executive director told RFE/RL. The warning comes as the US State Department moves to restru
RFE/RL
Sep 20
The Illegal Abduction of Ukrainian Children
Special Report, August 2026 By Sophia Khan, Beth Paul, Alexander Smith, and Emily Mullin Ukrainian children fleeing Russian aggression (Mirek Pruchnicki from Przemyśl, Sanok, Polska, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly has publicly presented its 2026 report by the Special Envoy on Russian Abductions and Deportations of Ukrainian Children. The report stresses that the situation on the return o
Genocide Watch
Aug 17
Country report: Russia August 2026
By Alexander Smith A firefighter works at a site in a residential area damaged during a Russian missile strike amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine. September 21, 2023. Image: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko. Russia has a long history of documented persecution of ethnic minorities and societal dissidents. Imperial Russia organized anti-Jewish pogroms. According to the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, the Soviet Union committed a genocide against Ukrainians dur
Genocide Watch
Aug 11
Forensic teams search a suspected mass grave from the Kosovo War
Kosovo policeman guards the site where forensic teams have begun excavations of a mass grave near the village of Kalluder, Wednesday, July 29 2026 (AP Photo/Florent Bajrami) 30 July 2026 KALLUDER, Kosovo (AP) — Authorities in Kosovo have begun excavations in a northern village after the discovery of human remains there that are believed to be of people missing since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war in what at the time was a Serbian province. Authorities say the site in Kalluder, in t
Zana Cimili | AP News
Jul 30
Russia batters Kyiv with massive missile attacks
By Cassandra Vinograd and Marc Santora July 19, 2026 Damage after a night of Russian missile strikes on Sunday in Kyiv. (Credit. Thomas Peter/Reuters) Russia bombarded Ukraine’s capital with one of the largest ballistic missile assaults of the war before dawn on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, the third major attack on the capital, Kyiv, in the past 35 days. As smoke still hung over the city and rescue teams raced to strike locations, city officials said one person had been
The New York Times
Jul 22
Lithuania and Latvia warn Russia against attacks
Copyright AP Photo 15 July 2026 The warnings are the latest in a series of alarms from leaders along NATO's eastern flank who suggest Russia may be trying to test the alliance as the Ukraine war drags on after more than four years. Russia is planning attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic states or Poland, Lithuanian and Latvian presidents warned on Wednesday, citing intelligence reports. "We are talking about energy and transport infrastructure, facilities where da
Greta Ruffino | AFP
Jul 16
Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC”
By Tania Kharchenko and Samuel Horti “"I have never heard such terrible screams before," says Liudmyla, recalling her first days in the Izolyatsia detention centre [Credit: BBC]” This article contains accounts of torture and sexual violence Early one October morning in 2019, a group of men jumped out of a car and grabbed Liudmyla Huseinova as she left her home. The 64-year-old says they seized her bag and threw her into the back seat, beginning what she describes as a "nightm
BBC News
Jul 10
Country Report: Romania July 2026
The deportation of Iasi pogrom survivors by Romania's Antonescu Regime in 1941, and the disposal of those who died en route. Credit: Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln Genocide Watch Country Report: Romania 2026 By Vladimir Kovtun In September 1940, General Ion Antonescu became Prime Minister of Romania, with the support of the fascist Iron Guard movement. Antonescu’s Government from 1940 until 1944 was allied to the Third Reich and directly participated in the Shoah. The Ant
