Media Coverage

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called on Tunisia to stop restricting media freedoms and said it was criminalizing independent journalism since President Kais Saied seized wide powers in 2021. Freedom of speech and media were key gains for Tunisians after the 2011 revolution...

A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil neighborhood, killing and raping and setting fire to hundreds of wood-and-tin homes. Forced out of the area, one family of four lived on the streets of Port-au-Prince until they were struck by a truck as they slept. They are among more than 165,000 Haitians...

The United States government does not have a responsibility to “take affirmative steps to secure water” for the Navajo Nation, the US Supreme Court has ruled, dealing a blow to the Indigenous community’s efforts to outline its water rights amid historic drought. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday morning...

A prominent anti-corruption activist in Honduras has filed a complaint with the Honduran human rights commissioner, claiming that threats forced her and her family to flee the country at the weekend. Gabriela Castellanos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA) non-profit group, left...

A United Nations expert said on Monday that the treatment of Afghan women and girls by the Taliban could amount to “gender apartheid” as their rights continue to be undermined by the governing authorities. “Grave, systematic and institutionalized discrimination against women and girls is at the...

Four Thai nationals will face charges in a Malaysian court on Friday over the 2015 discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps at the country's border with Thailand, Malaysia's home affairs minister said. The discovery of camps and graves on the Thai side of the border in 2015 led...

Yemen’s warring sides have exchanged 64 bodies of their fallen, local media and tribal leaders said. The handover between the country’s Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia marked the latest in reconciliation efforts amid Yemen’s yearslong conflict. The rare exchange took place on Wednesday near the Saudi...

Mourners laid their loved ones to rest hours after the Israeli military used helicopter gunships during a large-scale incursion into the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, killing five Palestinians and wounding at least 91. The fiercest clashes in years began early Monday after Israeli...

A German court has jailed a woman for more than nine years for enslaving a Yazidi woman, as well as aiding and abetting war crimes and genocide as a member of ISIL (ISIS). The 37-year-old German defendant, identified only as Nadine K, was also found guilty of crimes against humanity and membership...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called out Russia on Thursday for killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, adding its armed forces to a global list of offenders, according to a report to the UN Security Council seen by Reuters. The United Nations also verified that Russian armed...