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A UN official on Wednesday said that Islamists who have seized power in northern Mali are violating the human rights of women and children through enforced prostitution and recruitment of child soldiers. UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan...

Three armed Islamist groups in northern Mali are abusing the local population and employing child soldiers , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. According to interviews that HRW conducted over the past several weeks, three rebel...

The United Nations held the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Rule of Law Monday and released the outcome document prepared by the meeting. The meeting was attended by the President of the...

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on Thursday welcomed Pakistan's "declared will" to address the issue of enforced disappearances in the country but concluded that "serious challenges remain" ....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned human rights violations in Mali on Monday and called for international action to address the problems. Pillay stated that two militant Islamic groups, Movement for Unity...

JURIST Guest Columnist Katherine Todrys of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch recounts her experiences researching disease transmission and living standards in African prisons. She calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms to address the systemic problems...

Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were in Mali on Friday investigating whether two Islamic groups, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad and Ansar Dine, have committed war crimes in Mali. According to Malian officials the Islamic groups...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday that it has received "credible reports" of armed groups in Mali recruiting children for military purposes. UNICEF called on all parties to protect children from the reportedly...

JURIST Guest Columnist Alice Farmer, a Children's Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch, says that in many cases of asylum, children are presumed to be adults and are detained as such in countries such as Malta...A typical child wants to...

Malian soldiers loyal to the country's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, have been committing human rights violations, including torture, extra-judicial killings, and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report on Tuesday....