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Myanmar will hold special elections to fill parliamentary vacancies next April in its first vote since this year’s general election that critics said was designed to cement military rule. The elections will fill vacancies left by elected representatives who took ministerial or government posts and...

Nepal must put transitional justice at the center of its national agenda, as the country celebrates this month the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended the decades long civil war, a UN expert said today. “Since the Accord was signed in 2006, several transitional justice...

Today, the United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for a further year through resolution 2833 (2026). The decision, unanimously adopted, reaffirms the support that the Security Council, and the United Nations as a whole, has extended...

An antiterrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced prominent human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, ⁠⁠to 10 years in prison on terrorism-related charges. Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra announced the verdict on Thursday, following their trial inside Adiala prison in the garrison...

No clear winner has emerged from Israel’s election, with nearly 90 percent of ballots counted and both major political blocs falling short of the 61 seats needed to form a government. The Israeli Central Elections Committee said on Wednesday that it had counted more than five million votes as of 9pm...

Palestinian citizens of Israel have turned out in unprecedented numbers for Israel’s parliamentary elections, with some towns reporting participation rates exceeding 70 percent. Historically, however, Arab towns have witnessed lower participation rates in Israeli elections, ranging between 45 and 65...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has vowed that dictatorship and fascism will never return to Brazil after winning a historic fourth term in power by defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro. “This is God’s work – and it’s thanks to all of you,” Lula told tens of...

The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government. Vučić pointed to...

After nearly six years in detention, Aung San Suu Kyi's first words to her son were a question about his health. "And then I said all the family was sending their love and asked after her health," said Kim Aris, who spoke by phone with his 81-year-old mother on Thursday, their first direct...

UN experts have called on the Indian government to stop the use of “excessive force” in the wake of the crackdown on opposition and student protests in India. In a statement on Tuesday, the two dozen independent experts pressed for an impartial investigation into Indian authorities’ conduct, saying...