Ethiopia PM admits Eritrean soldiers entered Tigray region
Abiy Ahmed acknowledges ‘atrocities committed’ during the conflict in the northern region amid concerns over the humanitarian crisis....
Al Jazeera
Mar 24, 2021
Uighurs: Western countries sanction China over rights abuses
Several Western countries have announced sanctions against officials in China over rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur...
BBC News
Mar 22, 2021
Fear and Hostility Simmer as Ethiopia’s Military Keeps Hold on Tigray
Accounts of atrocities keep coming in as the wounded flee to the regional capital, Mekelle, where Tigrayans say they are being winnowed...
Genocide Watch
Mar 19, 2021
Amnesty condemns Xinjiang’s ‘tragedy of Uighur family separation’
Rights group says China’s ‘ruthless detention campaign’ is preventing exiled Uighur families from reuniting with their children in...
Al Jazeera
Mar 19, 2021
U.N. rights chief agrees to Ethiopia request for joint Tigray inquiry
Michelle Nichols / Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has agreed to an Ethiopian request...
Reuters
Mar 18, 2021
LGBT rights: New threat for Poland's 'rainbow families'
Adam Easton / BBC News, Warsaw Thirteen-year-old Pola is one of an estimated 50,000 children in Poland being raised by same-sex couples....
BBC News
Mar 17, 2021
Record High Killing of Philippine Lawyers
61 Lawyers Murdered During Duterte Administration Carlos H. Conde | Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher, Asia Division Protesters hold...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 17, 2021
Deported to Pakistan: Does death await Ahmadis?
Many Ahmadi Muslims are threatened with deportation from Germany. But other countries have recognized the need for protection of the...
!a Deutsche Welle 1
Mar 17, 2021
Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools
Minister for public security says decision has been taken on ‘national security’ grounds; activists decry announcement. Sri Lanka’s...
Al Jazeera
Mar 14, 2021
Colombian Official Refuses to Say if Children Were Killed in Attack on Rebels
Youths were present, the defense minister said, calling them “machines of war,” but he would not give the ages of the dead. Reports that...
New York Times 1
Mar 13, 2021
Roméo Dallaire urges Canada to act on 'genocide' in China
'Self-interest' is getting in the way of Canada's obligation to defend human rights in China: Dallaire Brennan MacDonald, Vassy Kapelos |...
CBC News
Mar 13, 2021
Top US diplomat decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for an international investigation into ‘ongoing’ atrocities, as well as the exit of Eritrean...
Al Jazeera
Mar 11, 2021
