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Indonesian Military Court Reduces Acid Attack Sentences
Click to expand Image Andrie Yunus, deputy coordinator at KontraS, attending a protest in Bandar Lampung, Sumatra on February 5, 2026. © 2026 Project Multatuli/Adrian Mulya A military court in Jakarta reduced the prison sentences and overturned the…
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Turkey Detains 24 in Belgium-Linked Drug Trafficking Probe
Turkish authorities have detained 24 people and seized assets worth approximately $20.6 million in an operation targeting an international drug trafficking network allegedly directed from Belgium, the Justice Ministry said.The Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants…
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Lebanon/Israel: Hezbollah’s Use of Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Israelis look at the border with Lebanon from a position in the northern village of Metula on March 5, 2026, after Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel during the ongoing conflict. © March 2026…
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Russian Attacks Disrupt New School Year in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Children, parents, and teachers shelter underground during an air raid alert amid traditional back-to-school celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 1, 2026. © 2026 Francisco Seco/AP Photo As schools in Ukraine opened for the new…
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South Korea: Systemic Gender, Age Discrimination at Work
Click to expand Image Cleaner at work in a Seoul metro station, Seoul, South Korea. © 2022 Shutterstock (Seoul) – Women in South Korea face systemic gender discrimination at every stage of their working lives, Human Rights Watch said…
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Germany: Confront UAE Role in Sudan, Repression at Home
Click to expand Image Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UAE's President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a work lunch as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 16, 2026. © Ammar Abd Rabbo-Pool/SIPA/2606161433 (Sipa…
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UN Talks on Killer Robots ends with Calls for Negotiations Growing
Click to expand Image © 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch In the early hours of September 5, a UN disarmament meeting in Geneva concluded three years of work on autonomous weapons systems, colloquially known as killer robots.…
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Ecuador Convicts 15 People, 5 Companies in $398 Million Drug Money Case
An Ecuadorian court has convicted 15 people and five companies for laundering nearly $398 million linked to international drug trafficking, the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced.Fourteen of the defendants, including Roberto Carlos Álvarez Vera, an alleged ringleader known…
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UN Finds Little Progress on Justice in Sri Lanka
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. © 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo Seventeen years after the end of Sri…
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Serbia’s Genocide Denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Click to expand Image Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladić in the courtroom in The Hague, Netherlands, June 8, 2021. © 2021 Jerry Lampen/AP Photo Survivors’ groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina have condemned the announcement that the Serbian government…
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