Nearly 30,000 children are suffering abuse in camps and prisons in Syria’s northwest, according to a U.N.-backed commission. Most children were brought to Syria and Iraq by their parents after the Islamic State group declared a caliphate in 2014. The Independent International
The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, its first lady and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human rights abuses. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on three entities and 11
A U.N.-backed human rights panel on Thursday accused the Nicaraguan government of abuses “tantamount to crimes against humanity.” Violent crackdowns on political dissent by Daniel Ortega’s government, which has since expanded to a campaign aimed at “incapacitating any kind of opposition in
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, Afghan Ambassador to Austria Manizha Bakhtari faced a serious dilemma. Should she continue to represent the former government from her Viennese post or abandon her title and role? “We were in
China has announced a ban on a U.S. research company and two analysts who have extensively reported on human rights abuses. The ban includes restrictions on their travel to China and the freezing of any assets or property they have in the
The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions on people around the world, including officials in Afghanistan, China and Iran, who have committed or contributed to human rights abuses. In a statement, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
A United Nations committee has passed a resolution condemning North Korean human rights abuses for the 19th year in a row. The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on member nations not to forcibly repatriate political
Iran will take the chair of a United Nations human rights social forum on Thursday, with many critical of the appointment due to Tehran’s decades-long record of human rights abuses and terrorism. “The United States finds it absurd that an official from
In a concerning development, several decades after the conclusion of Mexico’s “dirty war,” the military appears to have impeded a government-led investigation into human rights violations. Investigators had decided to withdraw from the inquiry last month after uncovering troubling evidence that military
The top human rights body of the United Nations voted on Wednesday to establish a fact-finding mission to scrutinize allegations of wrongdoing within Sudan’s ongoing conflict. Sudan plunged into turmoil in mid-April when longstanding tensions between the military and a formidable paramilitary