North Korea’s COVID restrictions intensify human rights violations – UN
Seoul, South Korea Reuters North Korea’s coronavirus curbs have aggravated the country’s human rights violations, a United Nations report said on Thursday, citing extra restrictions on access to information, tighter border security and heightened digital surveillance. The report, released by the UN human rights office in Seoul and to be presented to the General Assembly […]
Ukrainian soldiers accuse Russians of abuses in captivity
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Three Ukrainian soldiers who say they were wounded and taken prisoner by Russia after one of the war’s biggest battles and later released, on Monday accused their captors of torture and psychological pressure. The men, part of a force that spent weeks fighting from a vast steelworks in the southern port of […]
Ukraine says tens of thousands killed in Mariupol, accuses Russia of abuses
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine on Monday said tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia’s assault on the south-eastern city of Mariupol while the country’s rights ombudswoman accused Russian forces in the region of torture and executions. Reuters has confirmed widespread destruction in Mariupol but could not verify the alleged crimes or the […]
Myanmar army engaged in torture, mass killings, war crimes – UN
Reuters Myanmar’s military has engaged in systematic human rights violations, many amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on Tuesday, in its first comprehensive human rights report since last year’s coup. Security forces have shown a flagrant disregard for human life, using air strikes and heavy weapons on populated areas […]
Activists urge UN rights chief to release delayed report on Xinjiang
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Now that the Beijing Winter Olympics is over, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet must release her long-delayed report on alleged violations in China’s Xinjiang region against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a session of the Human Rights Council […]
Essay: Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics ATAL AHMADZAI and FATEN GHOSN say that five months after the Taliban again took power in Afghanistan, a clearer image of the human rights and personal freedoms situation is emerging…
Essay: Nine months after the coup, the international community is still failing the people of Myanmar
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, says the world is failing the people of Myanmar…
Sri Lankan detainees tortured while in custody, rights group alleges
New Delhi, India/Colombo, Sri LankaReuters Political detainees in Sri Lanka are being tortured while in police and military custody, a human rights lawyer who wrote a report on alleged abuses said, ahead of a UN human rights summit. The International Truth and Justice Project, a rights group documenting alleged abuses in Sri Lanka, gave details […]
UN rights boss says she has credible reports of Taliban executions; UN food chief says country “marching towards starvation”
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The UN human rights chief said on Tuesday that she had received credible reports of serious violations by the Taliban in Afghanistan, including “summary executions” of civilians and Afghan security forces who had surrendered. Michelle Bachelet gave no details of the killings in her speech to the Human Rights Council, but urged it […]
US looks into reports of atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Washington DC, USReuters The United States is looking into reports of human rights abuses and atrocities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the US State Department said on Monday. Department spokesman Ned Price told a news briefing that the United States is “gravely concerned” about accounts last week by CNN and the BBC of a massacre in […]