UN investigation into Tigray abuses to end despite reports of more atrocities
Failure to renew ICHREE mandate comes after human rights experts warn that abuses continue in Ethiopia A United Nations investigation into human rights abuses committed...
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Bolivian ex-president to pay damages to victims of military in landmark US case
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and former defence minister agree to pay for 2003 violence in which 60 protesters were killed A former Bolivian president and...
Vietnam detains energy thinktank chief in latest arrest of environmental expert
Ngo Thi To Nhien detained over charges of ‘appropriating documents’, a government spokesperson confirmed Vietnam state media has confirmed the arrest of the director of...
‘I had to drink my own urine to survive’: Africans tell of being forced into the desert at Tunisia border
As EU prepares to send money as part of €1bn deal, people trying to reach north African country detail border ‘pushbacks’ ‘It’s a torment’: refugee...
South African anti-migrant ‘vigilantes’ register as party for next year’s polls
Operation Dudula changes tactics from evictions and violence, with plans to fight elections on platform of expelling foreigners An anti-migrant vigilante organisation in South Africa...
Unilever to make payments to Kenyan tea pickers over 2007 plantation attacks
UK law firm Leigh Day says money given to 77 workers for murders and rapes ‘sidesteps’ multinational’s responsibility over attack Unilever is to make payments...
Chinese authorities reportedly sentence Uyghur professor to life in prison
Human rights group says Rahile Dawut lost appeal after being convicted in 2018 on charges of promoting ‘splittism’ A leading Uyghur professor who disappeared six...
Tigray atrocities continuing almost a year after ceasefire, UN experts warn
Ethiopian government is failing to protect its citizens from ‘grave’ human rights abuses, amid rising violence and hate speech – report Human rights abuses are...
Leading critic of Egyptian state jailed for six months
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu Eita A court in Cairo has sentenced a former newspaper publisher, free speech...
Record numbers expected as Europe’s biggest arms fair opens in London
Egypt, Vietnam and Indonesia among countries sending delegations to four-day DSEI at ExCeL Europe’s biggest ever arms fair got under way in London on Tuesday...
