Iraq
UN: ISIS genocide continues in northern Iraq
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that ongoing human rights violations against the Yazidi minority in Iraq at the hands of ISIS may amount to genocide.
Tag: genocide
Greater Middle East
Syria and moral double standards
By maintaining silence on Assad regime and Russian aerial terror in Syria—or even seeking to justify it—the Western left squanders its credibility to protest US war crimes.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: ISIS claims massacre of Hazaras
ISIS claimed responsibility for twin suicide blasts that killed at least 80 and wounded 230 Shi'ite Hazaras who were gathered in Kabul for a protest demonstration.
Iraq
Demand war crimes trial for ISIS leaders
Human Rights Watch called on the Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government authorities to prosecute ISIS fighters for war crimes against the Yazidi minority.
Southeast Asia
UN sees ‘crimes against humanity’ in Burma
Human rights abuses against the Rohingya in Burma may amount to crimes against humanity, according to a new report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
North America
Jill Stein: pro-fascist hippie dupe
Jill Stein, presidential candidate of the Green Party, talks about human rights while her party serves as a stateside propaganda organ of the genocidal Bashar Assad regime.
Greater Middle East
Syria: bloody Ramadan amid Russian aerial terror
Hundreds were killed in the first week of Ramadan in Syria, as the regime and its Russian allies keep up their relentless campaign of air-strikes on rebel-held towns.
Iraq
Syria: Kurdish feminist leads anti-ISIS offensive
Rojda Felat, a Kurdish revolutionary feminist, is leading the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' offensive on Raqqa, capital of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate.
South Asia
India: court convicts 24 in 2002 Gujarat pogrom
A court in Ahmedabad convicted 24 individuals of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat that left more than 1,000 dead.
Africa
AU court sentences Chad ex-ruler to life in prison
A court in Senegal convicted Chad's former dictator Hissène Habré of crimes against humanity committed during his rule, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The Amazon
‘Stop Brazil’s Genocide’ campaign greets Olympics
Advocacy group Survival International has launched a campaign to prevent the annihilation of tribal peoples in Brazil, to coincide with the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
South Asia
Bangladesh executes Islamist for war crimes
Bangladeshi authorities executed Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the the 1971 war of independence—the fifth Jamaat-e-Islami leader to be hanged.