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Click to expand Image Ruben Vardanyan, a former senior official in Nagorno-Karabakh de facto administration, attending a court hearing in Baku, Azerbaijan, February 17, 2026. Screen grab taken from a video. © 2026 Reuters TV via Reuters Ruben Vardanyan, a former senior official in Nagorno-Karabakh’s de facto administration who isContinue Reading

A national cybercrime court in Mali on September 14 sentenced a prominent journalist, Abdramane Keïta, to two years in prison on bogus charges, in the military government’s latest attack on media freedom. Click to expand Image Abdramane Keïta, director of the newspaper Le Témoin (The Witness), Bamako, Mali. © Private Security forces arrested Keïta,Continue Reading

Watch live coverage from the Palais des Nations in Geneva as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convenes for crucial debates on human … Read MoreContinue Reading

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva is holding a high-level discussion on alleged human rights violations in Russia and Iran … Read MoreContinue Reading

He has flagrantly trampled on every principle of human rights, mutually beneficial economic cooperation, democracy, and international non-aggression … Read MoreContinue Reading

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran has strongly condemned the Israeli regime forces’ attack on … Read MoreContinue Reading

… human rights violations in Iran. THIS PAGE … Paris Exhibition Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Abuses, Calls for End to the Mullahs’ Dictatorship. Read MoreContinue Reading

In its first official visit to Venezuela in 18 years, Human Rights Watch said its representatives met with interim President Delcy Rodríguez, … Read MoreContinue Reading

The two-time Chilean ​president and former ‌UN human ‌rights chief had positioned her campaign around defending multilateralism and ‌international … Read MoreContinue Reading

It was just the start of a decades-long pursuit of civil rights by Bonino — whose own father called her “stubborn as a mule” — though her later … Read MoreContinue Reading

Politicians and human rights advocates issued a series of recommendations during a dialogue seminar concerning the organization of political life … Read MoreContinue Reading

Colombian human rights defender Yuli Andrea Velásquez warns of imminent eviction of rural communities in Las Galias for solar farm. Brent Patterson. Read MoreContinue Reading

Pro-Democracy and Human Rights Advocate, Austin Aigbe, has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of 37 suspected artisanal. Read MoreContinue Reading

… human rights lawyers. The men – one from Egypt and one from Eritrea – were then taken to a prison. About 30 detainees from the US remain trapped … Read MoreContinue Reading