A difficult birth offers a glimpse into the pressures facing Senegal’s public healthcare system.

By Iran International September 17, 2026 Iranian security forces committed crimes against humanity in their crackdown on nationwide protests, a UN fact-finding mission said on Thursday, citing mass killings, torture and arbitrary detention. A masked protester raises both hands in victory signs as crowds gather on a smoke-filled road during protests in Mashhad, Iran, on January 9, 2026. The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said its report examined the 202

By RFI September 22, 2026 Families of 11 Salvadoran men deported from the United States are demanding to know what happened to their relatives after they were sent back to El Salvador under a secret agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele. Part of The Deportation Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, this investigation traces how Trump's deportation drive fed into El Salvador's prison system, in a case rights groups say amou

By Al Jazeera September 13, 2026 The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. Spain’s proposed citizenship route for Sahrawis is bringing its colonial legacy in Western Sahara back into the political spotlight and testing its delicate ties with Morocco [Hannah McNeish/Al Jazeera] Spain’s Congress has approved a bill that would open a special route to Spanish citizenship for Sahrawis born in Western Sahara while the disputed

By Jean-Yves Kamale September 16, 2026 People march during a protest organized by opposition parties against constitutional changes proposed by President Felix Tshisekedi, in Kinshasa, Congo, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi) KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police in Congo fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse hundreds of people demonstrating against constitutional changes they said could allow President Félix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office. The oppositi

By Amnesty International September 2, 2026 © Photo by ADNAN BECI/AFP via Getty Images Ahead of the 4 September meeting between Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands to discuss progress on plans to deport people to so-called “return hubs” in countries outside Europe where they may never have set foot, likely be to centres or facilities funded by EU member states, Eve Geddie, Director of the European Institutions Office of Amnesty International, said: “By their

Amnesty International Indonesia July 7, 2026 Credit: billyhanggara / Shutterstock Responding to recent backlash against online expression of LGBTQI+, which derived from the Presidential Regulation on General Policy for National Defense, which classifies the spread of LGBTQI+ culture as a non-military threat to the state, Amnesty International Indonesia’s executive director Usman Hamid says: “We express our profound concern regarding Indonesia’s Presidential Regulation No. 111

By Renata Lampert Artisanal gold miners working on the Kaka river in the La Paz region of the Bolivian Amazon. Image by Dan Collyns. Bolivia, 2023. Bolivia faces a continuing state of socio-political crises characterized by systemic impunity, institutional fragility, and escalating systemic violence targeting vulnerable populations. The elections of 2019 triggered the acceralation of the Bolivian socio-political collapse. President Evo Morales resigned after an Organization o

By Joaquín Gil August 29, 2026 The far-right political party España 2000 uses an NGO as cover to monitor neighbourhoods that have large immigrant populations They call themselves the “Angels of the Night.” On paper, they present themselves as a grassroots neighborhood group alarmed by rising crime in Valencia. Dressed in black T-shirts and caps bearing a silver logo of two children holding hands beneath angel wings, the self-styled vigilantes are preparing to patrol the stree

By Dánica Coto September 17, 2026 People gather next to the bodies of people they said were their relatives and were killed in a gang attack in Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug.24, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A human rights group in Haiti has revealed new details about one of the country’s biggest massacres in recent years and unveiled security holes as authorities struggle to contain violent gangs. The National Human

Reconceptualizing Human Trafficking as an Instrument of Genocide, Part 2. By Renata Lampert NARA Record Group 75 Part 1 of this article established the doctrinal grounds for analyzing human trafficking under Article II of the Genocide Convention. This second part applies the conceptual framework by evaluating three case studies where trafficking was weaponized for group destruction. Child Transfers and Forced Assimilation: Ukraine Forced child transfer from Ukrainian to Russi

By Amnesty International September 21, 2026 REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra The plunder by M23 and Rwanda of DRC’s gold and coltan may amount to war crime of pillage M23’s multiple violations that also involve Rwandans may amount to war crimes “Rwanda has continued to illegally profit from DRC’s mineral wealth,” Agnès Callamard Minerals linked to abuses by M23 are prevalent in electronic devices owned by millions across the world Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) fighters have com

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

Under often-secret deals struck with third countries across Africa and Latin America, US President Donald Trump has deported thousands of people who were hoping to build new lives in the US to countries they’ve never set foot in before.

By Abby Sewel and Qassim Abdul-Zahra September 15, 2026 Credit : AP Photo/Hadi Mizban BAGHDAD (AP) — Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long U.S. military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups. The U.S. withdrawal is underway, and officials say the hundreds of troops remaining in northern Iraq will be out by the Sept. 30 deadline. The Iraqi government has linked the U.S. withdrawal to an ultimatum for militias to

Latin America remains the deadliest region for land and environmental defenders with 85% of cases in 2025 María Mónica Monsalve S. September 17, 2026 The Global Witness report once again ranks Colombia as the country with the highest number of murders, with 39 out of 124 worldwide. Brazil follows with 26, double the 2024 figure The map of Latin America is dotted with red markers representing land and environmental defenders who have been murdered. Cándido Esaú Román Pérez, a

By The Associated Press September 7, 2026 Women seek information about the expected arrival of their relatives who were aboard the Maria Candelaria, a vessel intercepted two days prior by U.S. authorities on suspicion of alleged drug trafficking at the port of Manta, Ecuador, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Ochoa) QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The U.S. Southern Command on Monday sank another Ecuadorian vessel that the U.S. alleged was linked to the criminal group Los Choneros.

By Mihra Rittmann September 17, 2026 Another Critic Prosecuted into Silence Amid Crackdown on Freedom of Expression Downtown Astana, Kazakhstan, February 28, 2023. © 2023 Olivier Douliery/AP Photo Satirist and political commentator Azamat Omarov, who had been in pre-trial detention in Kazakhstan since mid-April on “inciting discord” charges, struck a plea bargain with the prosecution, under the terms of which he pled guilty, and on September 15, was released. While Omarov avo

By Al Jazeera Staff, Ali Mustafa and Anadolu 15 September, 2026 Houthis pledge to continue attacks on ‘Saudi military concentrations until aggression ceases’ Correction A previous version of this article stated that the Houthis claimed on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia carried out 54 air strikes over the past 24 hours. This was incorrect. The Houthi claim was made late on Monday. The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has promised to respond “firmly” to missile and drone attack

November 2026 By Flora Tu Former Kamloops Indian Residential School, British Columbia, circa 1930 Archives Deschâtelets-NDC, Fonds Deschâtelets On May 27, 2021, Indigenous nation Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc announced that ground-penetrating radar identified 215 suspected unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. For many Canadians, the announcement sparked national mourning and calls for reform. For Indigenous communities, it was an affirmation of what ha

Nigerian police have launched an investigation into the deaths of the miners, who were in the custody of the country's civil defense corps.

By Bardhyl Jashari September 6, 2026 Gravestones at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, commemorating 8,372 Bosniak Muslim victims of a massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladić in 1995. Photo by Michael Büker, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Death does not erase the verdict. When a war criminal is placed on a pedestal by government officials, it undermines the dignity of the victims, weakens the rule of law, harms the very idea of North

By Anselm Gibbs March 03, 2026 Trinidad and Tobago has declared a new state of emergency as authorities in the Caribbean country struggle with a surge in violent crime Trinidad and Tobago (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency Tuesday, only about a month after the end of the previous one, as authorities in the Caribbean nation continue to grapple with high levels of violent crime. Prime Minister Kamla P

A political and military standoff in Somalia's Southwest state risks escalating beyond a power struggle into a protracted inter-clan conflict that could destabilize the wider Bay region, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) said in a new report. The conflict pits federal government forces and their regional allies against Darwish forces loyal to ousted Southwest State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen. According to ACLED, the two sides have fou

By Bryan Avelar September 13, 2026 President Nayib Bukele claims that years of gang violence have left 80,000 people missing. However, the Legislative Assembly has rejected a proposed bill centered around the search for the disappeared, leaving families feeling helpless. Forensic criminalist Israel Ticas excavates a clandestine grave in El Salvador. Photo by EL PAÍS USA Edition Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent