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Amnesty International on Friday raised concern about the ongoing coercion of Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories to teach the Russian-imposed curriculum to school-going children. The report portrays the resumption of schooling in the occupied territories as Russia’s attempt to justify its aggression by indoctrinating students with a propagandized curriculum. The Russian curriculum in the occupied [...]

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) voted on Wednesday to formally recognize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a political prisoner based on his time spent in UK custody while fighting extradition to the US on espionage charges. Assange has been free since June, when he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy for releasing troves of US classified documents [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Wednesday raised concerns over the forcible recruitment of children into a youth group associated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). HRW interviewed multiple families whose children were taken by the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Syria, or Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger. The report revealed that in the vast majority [...]

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that multiple provisions of the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office Act (BKA Act) are unconstitutional because they infringe upon citizens’ privacy rights. The Society for Civil Rights e.V. (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. or “GFF”), a German donor-funded organization, challenged the act in court, asserting that the anti-terrorist surveillance and [...]

The imperatives are plain. Whatever the trajectory of wars in the region, Israel has a law-based obligation to keep Iran non-nuclear. Immediately and incrementally, therefore, Jerusalem will need to ensure “escalation dominance” during periods of competitive risk-taking. This overriding responsibility concerns both Iran’s sub-state proxies (especially Shiite Hezbollah and Sunni Hamas) and Iran directly. What [...]

Officials in Ukraine reported that Russia launched two drone attacks on the Saint Panteleimon hospital in Sumy on Saturday. The interior minister of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, reported that the first of two drones demolished several floors of the hospital, and the second attack occurred during the evacuation of patients and staff. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday detailing incidents of civilian atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid ongoing military confrontations involving Rwandan forces and the M23 rebel group. As these forces move closer to the town of Sake, local residents and more than half a million displaced individuals [...]

Japan’s Shizuoka District Court aquitted 88-year-old Iwao Hakamata on Thursday in a retrial, overturning his conviction after spending 48 years on death row. Presiding judge Kunii Koshi held that evidence against Hakamata had been manipulated by the investigative authorities at the time. In 1966, Hakamada was convicted of murdering four individuals—a senior manager at his [...]

The UN Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Sudan on Thursday expressed concern over the rise in conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan. According to the team, reports from Khartoum and Al Jazira showed that an increasing number of girls and women are abducted and subjected to rape, sexual capacity, and forced marriage. The HCT stated that [...]

The United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, and several other nations, including France, Germany, and Japan, released a joint statement on Wednesday, urging an end to the “situation between Lebanon and Israel” — a reference to the cross-border conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. The coalition of states called for a “diplomatic settlement” to [...]