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The consideration and passage by Uganda's government of one of the world's harshest anti-gay laws have unleashed a torrent of abuse against LGBTQ people, mostly committed by private individuals, rights groups said on Thursday. The Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was enacted in May, prescribes the...

At least 35,178 people have suffered sexual, gender, and reproductive violence in Colombia's armed conflict, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal said on Wednesday as it opened an investigation. Women, girls, and people with diverse sexual orientations, identities, and expressions of...

A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for "endangering state security." Rahile Dawut's sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018 conviction, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group. China has been accused of crimes against humanity...

United Nations investigators say that human rights violations and abuse in Syria are sowing the seeds for further violence and radicalization, despite diplomatic efforts to stabilize the situation in the country, including through its re-admission to the League of Arab States. The three-member...

A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week. More than 13,000 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians. Armenia's prime minister...

Ethiopia told the United Nations on Saturday it wanted quicker implementation of a peace deal in Tigray, including on disarmament of former rebels. Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in November last year reached an accord in Pretoria that has largely halted a...

A UN-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela said Wednesday the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with threats, surveillance, and harassment as President Nicolás Maduro faces a re-election contest next year. The...

The United Nations said Wednesday that Afghanistan's Taliban had committed more than 1,600 human rights violations during arrests and detentions of people, including women, and it urged the de facto authorities to cease the abuses. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, has documented...

Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA)—a military school turned secret detention center—has been named a United Nations World Heritage site in an effort to preserve its grisly history. Some 5,000 people disappeared behind its walls. Many were never seen again. In 1976, a military group...

Rights groups have claimed that Iranian authorities arrested Mahsa Amini’s father and prevented her family from holding a vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of her death. The 1500tasvir monitor, the Iran Human Rights group, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said Amjad Amini had been...