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Bangladesh Genocide Memorial events March 25 & 26

South Africa: 50,000 domestic violence cases, 988 Femicides

By: Zebilon Maine Image: Reuters The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development says it’s dealing with over 50,000 cases of...

Biden Should Give Ukraine What It Needs To Win

A woman stands outside an apartment building in Vyshhorod, Ukraine, a day after it was struck by a Russian missile.Credit...Brendan...

Country Report: Russia

Russia Country Report January 2023 Russian National Guard (Rosguardia) servicemen march through a street with a letter Z, which has...

Fortify Rights files criminal complaint against Myanmar generals

Fortify Rights and 16 individual complainants seek accountability for Rohingya genocide and coup-related atrocities...

Ukraine Finds Sexual Crimes Where Russian Troops Ruled

Investigators have uncovered widespread evidence of abuse by Moscow’s forces, including rape and forced nudity. Olha, a 26-year-old...

Ukrainians Describe Horrors of Kherson Occupation

By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Residents in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson call the...

ISIS fighters terrorize northern Mozambique

R.A., 16, bears the scars of his torture by Islamic State militants after they overran his village near Pemba, Mozambique, a few years...

Myanmar Genocide Emergency

Myanmar’s military seized control of the country’s infrastructure in early February 2021, suspending most television broadcasts and...

In Russian-Occupied Izyum, She Was Raped and Tortured

A portrait of Alla, a Ukrainian woman who said she was held by Russian forces for 10 days in July in the occupied city of Izyum in...

Russia’s ‘Most Hidden Crime’ in the Ukraine War: Rape

A woman who gave her name only as S. sits in a chair in her home in Makariv, Ukraine, a town that had been under Russian occupation. She...

Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice. Venera Meshveliani, 86,...

ICJ rejects Myanmar objections to Rohingya genocide case

Fortify Rights July 22, 2022 The ICJ, also known as the World Court, delivered a judgment rejecting the Myanmar junta’s preliminary...

Migrants in Libya forced into rape for food:UN

Investigators described how migrants in detention face “acts of murder, torture, rape and other inhumane acts” A flimsy rubber boat...

Dozens Killed in Violence in Volatile South Sudan County

By Deng Machol © UNICEF/UN0234655/Modola Dozens of people have recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual...

South Sudan: ‘Hellish Existence’ for Women and Girls

Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on...

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