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Rights group says Saudi Arabian border guards fired on and killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Border guards in Saudi Arabia have fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday. ...
Rights group and UN experts single out Sudanese paramilitary with accusations of sexual violence
CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group and U.N. experts accused Sudan’s powerful paramilitary on Thursday of sexual violence and attacks on women in the restive western Darfur region as the African country entered its fifth month of conflict. Sudan plunged into chaos in mid-April,...
Rights group urges rapid international intervention to end spiraling gang violence in Haiti
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital. The call by Human Rights Watch...
Rights group denounces Tanzanian government for detaining critics and urges freedom of expression
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international human rights group denounced Tanzania's government on Monday for detaining critics and urged it to respect freedom of expression and the right to protest. Human Rights Watch said 22 people have been detained since June for criticizing a...
US and UN should impose more sanctions on Sudanese leaders for alleged atrocities, rights group says
CAIRO (AP) — A leading human rights group called Friday on the United States and the United Nations to impose further sanctions on those in Sudan "responsible for the atrocities" in the troubled Darfur region, where evidence of scorched-earth attacks is mounting. The northeast...
Mali's army and suspected Russia-linked mercenaries committed 'new atrocities,' rights group says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali's army together with suspected mercenaries from the shadowy Russian group Wagner have committed summary executions, lootings, forced disappearances and other abuses, a leading human rights group reported Monday. Human Rights Watch said the atrocities...
Activists condemn violence against LGBTQ community in St. Vincent, where gay sex is illegal
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Advocacy group Human Rights Watch released an in-depth report Thursday that details the abuse and discrimination the LGBTQ community says it faces in the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where gay sex is still criminalized. ...
Separatist attack kills 10 in northwestern Cameroon, regional governor says
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Armed separatists wearing military uniforms killed 10 civilians and wounded three in an attack at a crowded intersection in Cameroon's volatile northwest, the regional governor said on Monday. The killings took place on Sunday in Bamenda, the region’s...
Rights group urges probe into Darfur atrocities by Sudanese paramilitary forces battling the army
CAIRO (AP) — A prominent rights group on Tuesday called for the International Criminal Court to investigate atrocities in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, including what it says were “summary executions” of 28 non-Arab tribesmen by a Sudanese paramilitary force and allied Arab militias in...
Israeli army disciplines soldiers for actions during 2021 Gaza war but will not take criminal action
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's army announced Friday that it has disciplined five officers, but would not file criminal charges for their actions during Israel's 2021 war in the Gaza Strip — a conflict in which human rights advocates say Israel committed war crimes. The soldiers, who...
