Media Coverage

Colombia’s Truth Commission revealed the names of 423 people and 58 companies that allegedly financed the expansion of paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 1998 within the city of Medellin. None of the people and the companies in the AUC’s financial administration were taken to court after...

Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, additionally saying the victims were all Oromos and describing the attackers as members of a volunteer militia known as Fano, mostly composed of ethnic Amharas. Both...

Mexico's former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture, and the obstruction of justice. The students vanished while traveling by bus...

The District Court in Doboj has confirmed an indictment charging Ante Pavic, a former military policeman with the Croatian Defense Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, with war crimes against civilians. According to the indictment, Pavic participated in beatings, unlawful detentions and rape...

A former Peruvian military officer who led a failed 2005 uprising has been released from prison, following a surprise announcement that his 19-year sentence had been reduced. A lawyer for Antauro Humala, the leader of Peru’s Ethnocacerist nationalist movement, which seeks to put the country’s...

British national El Shafee Elsheikh was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in an Islamic State scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners hostage a decade ago. Elsheikh’s hostages gave him a somewhat whimsical nickname — he was dubbed a “Beatle” along with other English-accented...

Israeli defense officials have confirmed that an Israeli raid on a Gaza cemetery killed five Palestinian children during its assault in early August, according to a new report, contradicting previous statements senior military officials made to local media. Several defense sources told the Haaretz...

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice. In 1993, Venera Meshveliani was one among more than 300 people who were held hostage by Russian soldiers for around three weeks in Abkhazia, a breakaway region in northwestern Georgia that...

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has opened a case against retired admiral Dragan Samardzic, the former Chief of the Army General Staff, over allegations that he was involved in war crimes committed against civilians in November 1991 in the area around the Croatian coastal city of...

A cohort of independent UN experts has called on the Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the massive explosion in Beirut two year ago, with a view to securing justice for those who died and were injured. The powerful blast, caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate in...