A road sweeper in his late twenties, Sawan Masih told police after his arrest on blasphemy charges that In Pakistan, conviction under the blasphemy laws can carry a mandatory death sentence. Masih was sentenced to death in 2014, a decision he has appealed. Hundreds of Pakistanis are on death row for blasphemy convictions.

This brutal attack resulted in a massacre that killed 11 and wounded over 70 civilians, the majority ongoing violent killings, rapes, arrests and torture that have devastated the lives of the innocent civilians stationed in Nertiti, UNAMID forces were not far from the scene of the incident, yet did nothing to stop civilians The United Nations African Union mission that was deployed 10 years ago to protect civilians is failing We demand that UNSC press for immediate humanitarian access to enable medical treatment for wounded civilians

and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death This figure does not include the estimated 13,000 additional deaths as a result of the extrajudicial Those who are condemned to death do not find out about their sentences until minutes before they are This would last around 10 minutes… We were sleeping on top of the sound of people choking to death. a regular form of punishment and degradation, often leading to life-long damage, disability or even death

The soldiers asked a number of questions about Mali, regarding the border situation, civilian opinions

These safe zones would protect Syria’s vulnerable civilian populations, particularly Syria’s Sunni Muslims

It also claims that civilian members of the so-called Davao Death Squad, which rights activists allege Lascanas was the second Senate witness to link Duterte to the Davao Death Squad. prosecute suspects if the killings were "committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian

due to the imposed the evacuation of the city for “strategic reasons” and “not for the security of civilians According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, approximately 876 civilians were killed in Syria in

their data create a harrowing portrait of innocence lost: More than 200,000 children are at risk of death "Schools are left in ruins, some occupied by warring forces, death of innocent people is rampant," Michael described how South Sudan's military attacked schools and wrote of "children being ordered to kill civilians

120 Christian residents in villages west of the city of Kafanchan, Nigeria, were shot and hacked to death Clergy on the ground near the killings say the death toll is at least 130.

Another former political prisoner, Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was elected the head of a civilian

But, the civilian and military leadership of Myanmar, including the military’s Commander-in-Chief Senior

Pinheiro and his aides told them that increasing numbers of civilians were now concentrated in northern “New conflicts are emerging in which civilians are caught up between all these actors,” said Anis Anani