Media Coverage

Gangs attacked in several neighborhoods of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday, forcing many people to leave their homes after gunfire raged through the night. Authorities did not immediately release casualty information. Haiti’s police union said on its social media channels that the...

Zimbabwe’s government is to start distributing $20 million as initial compensation to local Black and foreign white farmers whose land was taken from them during the land invasions more than two decades ago. According to the country’s finance minister, the move is part of a broader effort by the...

Ukraine has documented evidence related to the execution of 93 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to a law enforcement official tasked with investigating war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Yuriy Belousov, who heads the Prosecutor-General's Office’s department in charge of...

Scores of people including three infants were killed in a gang attack in central Haiti, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday. Members of the Gran Grif gang used automatic rifles to kill at least 70 people, including 10 women and three infants, according to the UN. The...

A Tunisian court sentenced presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel to 12 years in prison on Tuesday, amid growing opposition anger against President Kais Saied, whose critics accuse him of using the judiciary to sideline his opponents. It was the third prison sentence imposed on Zammel in two weeks...

The African Union has appointed a continental Reference Group on Transitional Justice in Africa. On September 10, 2024, the Reference Group on Transitional Justice in Africa was launched in Port Louis, Mauritius, by the African Union Commission's Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security...

Three Israeli human rights organizations have accused Channel 14, a right-wing Israeli TV station, of promoting incitement against Palestinians. According to a report in Haaretz, the organizations—Zulat for Equality and Human Rights, Hatzlacha, and the Democratic Bloc—allege that the channel has...

Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, warned that Colombia’s economic segregation is obstructing peace efforts following a 10-day visit to Colombia. Despite progress in Colombia’s peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels...

Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws led to the social network being blocked in one of its biggest markets. On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporarily...

European aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights, according to a global watchdog report published Wednesday. As part of a policy to contain migration, authorities in Cyprus have physically pushed Syrian refugees back to Lebanon...