A new special tribunal will investigate Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Will it be effective?

Earlier this year, the European Union, the Council of Europe, Ukraine and an international coalition of states agreed to establish a new special tribunal.

India forcibly sterilised 8m men: One village remembers, 50 years later

The imposition of a state of national emergency on June 25, 1975, was India’s closest brush with dictatorship. In Uttawar village, the scars remain.

Israel in breach of EU deal over Gaza human rights, report signals

EU leaders will now have to decide whether there is sufficient support to take action.

Denmark to push for stricter EU migration policies during union presidency

Danish PM hopes to build EU consensus on shifting asylum procedures outside Europe and restricting power of European Court of Human Rights.

‘Paralysed and constantly caught by surprise’: Voices from Iran after US strikes

“My days and nights are the same. I feel paralysed. I just stare at the ceiling all day and all night.”

Funding crisis stalls UN probe into possible war crimes in Congo

A U.N.-mandated commission investigating suspected human rights violations and war crimes in Democratic Republic of Congo cannot proceed due to a funding crisis in the U.N. human rights office (OHCHR).

Human Rights: Back to the Future?

In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm.

Indonesian police arrest 75 people at ‘gay party’

Authorities in the Indonesian city of Bogor on June 22 arrested 75 people after they raided a “gay party.”

Expelled and Forgotten: The Forced Exodus of Bulgarian Turks in 1989

In May 1989, Bulgaria witnessed something unprecedented in its communist era: massive protests that did not unfold in the capital, Sofia, but in villages and towns scattered across the country, writes Diana Ivanova from Radio Free Europe. These protests were led by the ethnic Turks of Bulgaria, who rose up to reclaim the names stripped from them by force. In response, the Bulgarian state expelled them.

Federal court rules ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf after ‘orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists’

Journalist was taken off air three days into five-day contract in December 2023 after sharing Gaza post on social media.