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Sri Lanka announced Thursday an investigation into its military over allegations of rights abuses, following intense international pressure for a war-crimes probe into the...
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Cuban authorities arrested an unusually large group of about 100 dissident marchers Sunday, breaking up a march by the Ladies in White opposition activists....
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A new Amnesty International report on Friday highlighted the “hundreds” of abductions and incidents of torture by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, and also criticised...
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The International Labour Organization said Thursday it was investigating a new law in Bolivia that allows children as young as 10 to work, amid...
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Activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers, professors — China’s new leaders have taken aim at civil society in what analysts call an effort to muffle dissent...
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EU efforts to seal off Europe’s borders to illegal migrants have also shut off access to refugees from conflict, thus putting their lives at...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised human rights issues publicly in China on Tuesday — unlike many Western visitors — invoking the fall of the...
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Pope Francis acknowledged Monday that the suicides of clerical sex abuse victims weigh on his conscience as he thanked victims on Monday for shining...
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Two retired military officers were sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of a Catholic bishop during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship. Documents in...
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A Guatemalan court handed down the country’s first conviction of a leftist guerrilla leader for the killings of indigenous farmers during the 1960-1996 civil...