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A UN panel examining the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ruled that he should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his “deprivation of liberty.” The five independent rights experts, who make ...
Israeli forces have shot and killed three Palestinians in Jerusalem over an alleged attack on police officers, in the latest act of violence against Palestinian people. The shooting took place on Wednesday at the Damascus ...
According to the report, US laws and practices violate internationally recognized human rights in incarceration, racial disparities, criminal justice, police killing of African Americans and foreign policy to name a few. “The United States locks ...
Dozens of masked men, allegedly linked to the mid hooligans and neo-Nazi nebula, converged Friday evening to the center of Stockholm to attack migrants, said Saturday the Swedish police. No complaints of potential victims had ...
Sixteen other people died of hunger in the Syrian city of Madaya (west), since humanitarian convoys are entered mid-January, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF). Cases of malnutrition are estimated at 320, including 33 patients ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday launched an appeal for 2.8 billion dollars in 2016 to help 43 million children caught in humanitarian crises around the world. For the first time, most of ...
The Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday denounced settlement activity in the territories occupied by Israel, speaking of « provocations » that cast doubt on the willingness of Israelis to reach a two-state solution. ...
How long the men of war are there? Researchers have found in Kenya a set of skeletons bearing traces of fatal injury, suggesting a « mass murder » 10,000 years ago when prehistoric man was not yet ...
A university in the northwest of Pakistan has come under attack by armed militants, and at least seven people have been killed, with a further 20 injured. It’s not yet clear how many of the ...
Hundreds of women gathered on the steps of Cologne Cathedral in Germany on Saturday. They came to protest against sexual violence and to push for women’s rights. A string of robberies and sexual assaults in ...
