President Nicolas Maduro’s calculation includes the potential for domestic and international political and economic gains.
Forces linked to Russia operating in the Central African Republic have executed, tortured, and beaten civilians since 2019, according to Human Rights Watch.
A newly released report showed that at least 333 people were executed in 2021, a 25-percent increase compared with 267 in 2020.
Israel's housing policy, which prioritises zoning for Israeli settlements and limits housing options for Palestinians, "clearly amounts to segregation based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin," UN experts say.
After Kenneth Roth steps down at the end of August, Human Rights Watch said deputy executive director Tirana Hassan will serve as interim executive director.
Ilhan Omar during her visit criticised the reluctance of the US government to discuss the issue of human rights abuses in India-administered Kashmir.
The reform to the penal code applies to those who "reproduce and transmit messages or communications originating or allegedly originating from" the criminal groups.
As concerns over human rights grow, Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council in a confidential report that Mali's counter-terrorism efforts had "disastrous consequences for the civilian population".
Last November, the ICC opened a formal investigation into alleged rights violations during a crackdown by security forces on protests sparked by the arrests of several opposition leaders in 2017.
The military carried out torture, murder, and other crimes against civilians following the February 1 coup, the human rights group Fortify Rights and Yale Law School's Schell Center said in a report.
The United Nations drew up a list of 142 individuals who warrant investigation for crimes including mass rapes and sexual slavery of women and deliberate killing of scores of children.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has catalogued a litany of abuses, including torture, gang rape and enforced disappearances, saying some may amount to war crimes.
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