Syria violence worsening, not safe for refugee return, UN investigators say
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, UN war crimes investigators said on Tuesday, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary detention by government forces. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said the overall situation was increasingly bleak, noting hostilities in several areas […]
Myanmar military frees hundreds of detained protesters, child victim buried
Reuters Myanmar’s ruling junta on Wednesday freed hundreds of people arrested in its crackdown on protests against the overthrow of the elected government, while businesses in Yangon were shut and streets deserted in a strike called by anti-coup activists. Several buses full of prisoners drove out of Yangon’s Insein Prison in the morning, lawyers and […]
“Lost memories”: War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation
AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO and BAN BARKAWI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how Al-enabled tools on media websites may be erroneously removing content that could be used to prove rights violations at bodies like the International Criminal Court…
How safe is your state? US scores low on human rights
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation Police brutality, migrant abuse and Death Row ensured the United States scored poorly among rich countries in a survey released on Thursday assessing human rights from Mexico to Mozambique. The Wellington-based Human Rights Measurement Initiative quizzed experts in all of the 19 nations it assessed, including civil society groups, lawyers […]
Parties on all sides of Yemen have perpetrated human rights violations, say UN appointed investigators
Parties on both side in Yemen’s ongoing civil war have perpetrated human rights violations and possibly war crimes, according to UN appointed human rights investigators. Speaking on Tuesday, Charles Garraway, a member of the International and Regional Group of Eminent Experts in Yemen, said they had found “reasonable grounds” to believe the forces of both Yemen’s […]