Human Rights
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 06:45
The explanation for the US military’s impossibly low number can be found in the very way it investigates its own airstrikes.
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 06:44
Three years ago today, authorities arrested Ilgar Mammadov, a prominent political analyst and one of Azerbaijan’s few alternative political voices. The anniversary of his arrest marks another grim milestone in Azerbaijan’s relentless crackdown on critics.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:43
An appeals court ruling which denied an alleged war criminal from Somalia immunity from prosecution in a U.S. courtroom is only a partial success, a human rights group said on Monday. The decision by the fourth circuit court of appeals in Virginia has opened a path for an individual lawsuit for torture and attempted murder against Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali, who was head of the Somali army’s Fifth Brigade during the brutal Siad Barre dictatorship of the 1980s and who fled to Canada before settling in the U.S.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:40
February 1, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan’s armed opposition group, (SPLM-IO) on Monday accused forces loyal to the Juba government of allegedly using chemical weapons on their forces in Lanyi and Mundri in East county of western equatoria state. Colonel Nyarji Roman, the deputy spokesperson in the office of the SPLM-IO chairman told Sudan Tribune there was a heavy fighting between government forces and opposition forces loyal to Riek Machar in Lanyi and Mundri areas Sunday.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 06:39
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty call for independent commission to look into allegations of war crimes, such as bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières clinics.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:33
Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, told Reuters: "Now our rules of engagement are: you are close to the border, you are killed."
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 07:10
A trial has begun in Guatemala of two ex-military officers for human rights abuses against indigenous women during the country's long armed conflict.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 06:23
The African Union, a 54-member continental bloc, had said it would send a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to quell the violence in war-torn Burundi, with or without the government’s consent. It backpedaled on that plan Sunday, instead announcing a deployment of high-level delegates to Bujumbura to negotiate a solution acceptable to President Pierre Nkurunziza. But the Burundian leader is unlikely to approve foreign boots on the ground under any circumstances, political and human rights experts said, leaving violence to continue unabated and tipping the central African nation closer to a civil war.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:15
U.S. Central Command has added to its list of civilian casualties as a result of airstrikes against the Islamic State group.
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 06:09
The United Nations' top human rights official urged Turkey on Monday to investigate the shooting of unarmed people 10 days ago in its largely Kurdish southeast and said any members of the security forces committing rights abuses should be prosecuted.