Pari Ibrahim of the Free Yezidi Foundation spoke at New York's Institute for the Study of Human Rights on the ongoing genocide and sexual slavery of her people at the hands of ISIS.
Mounting attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians are going virtually unreported as Netanyahu pledges a "harsh" response to the deadly Jerusalem synagogue attack.
Will the anarchist-oriented Rojava Kurds ultimately be crushed in deference to Washington's NATO ally Turkey—or coopted into imperial clients? Is a third revolutionary option possible?
The death of at least a dozen peasant women in a Chhattisgarh sterilization program comes in the context of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Naxalite guerillas.
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal convicted opposition politician MA Zahid Hossain Khokon to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war with Pakistan.
Indigenous communities in Guatemala are to receive reparations for massacres aimed at clearing the land for the World Bank-funded Chixoy hydroelectric project.
Mexico claimed the capture of Juárez Carel kingpin Vicente Carrillo Fuentes AKA "El Viceroy"—yet another take-down of a defeated rival of the hegemonic Sinaloa Cartel.
A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war with Pakistan.
At least 18 bodies found in three mass graves near the pueblo of Tacueyó in Colombia’s Cauca department are believed to be victims of a guerilla massacre.
A former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader, Ghulam Azam, who was imprisoned for war crimes last year, died of a heart attack in a prison hospital.
Iraqi government-backed Shi'ite militia have been committing war crimes and abducting and murdering "scores" of Sunni men, Amnesty International finds.
Survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms filed a class action lawsuit against India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a US district court under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
