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Politicians, campaigners, and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations (APPG-AR), a group of cross-party MPs, is...

Mahsa Amini—a Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody last year—and the Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement she inspired in Iran have been awarded the 2023 European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Speaking at a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday, European Parliament...

Senior UK special forces officers had suspicions of a "deliberate policy" of murder by the Special Air Service (SAS) in Afghanistan but hid evidence, an inquiry heard. In some cases, they did nothing and in others "sought to prevent adequate investigation," a lawyer for families of those killed said...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he's willing to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of the year. "We must move steadily towards peace," Pashinyan said during an address to the European Parliament on October 17. "To do this, political will is necessary, and I have that...

Italy’s top criminal court has confirmed the extradition of an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during its last military dictatorship, rejecting the priest’s appeal, a lawyer said Sunday. Arturo Salerni—who represented Argentina in the case—told The Associated...

Mahsa Amini—the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year— sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been named a finalist for the European Union’s top human rights prize. The European Parliament on Thursday announced...

Armenia urged the United Nations top court on Thursday to impose new interim orders on Azerbaijan to prevent what the leader of Armenia's legal team called the “ethnic cleansing” of the Nagorno-Karabakh region from becoming irreversible. Armenia asked judges at the International Court of Justice for...

Syria boycotted a hearing at the United Nations’ top court on Tuesday where the Netherlands and Canada accused Damascus of a years-long campaign of “institutionalized” torture against its own people. The hearing was focused on a preliminary Dutch and Canadian request for the court to impose orders—...

A Russian missile strike killed at least 50 people in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in what would be one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began. Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, in the Kharkiv region...

The Armenian parliament on Tuesday voted to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), which earlier this year indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine. The move is likely to further strain Armenia’s deteriorating relation with...