President Cyril Ramaphosa has thrown his weight behind the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor’s decision to request warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prosecutor, Karim Khan KC, also requested arrest warrants for Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three senior Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in…
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 953 food baskets to the most needy and displaced families in Al-Buhaira locality in the Nile River State in the Republic of Sudan. 5,480 individuals benefited from the aid as part of the second phase of the project to support food security in Sudan for…
Major banks operating in Thailand and Vietnam aren’t doing enough to address the environmental and human rights consequences of their investments in large-scale hydropower dams along the Mekong River, according to a new report. The report, by Fair Finance Asia, a network of more than 90 civil society organizations led by Oxfam…
The first trial in France of officials from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad opened on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court will hear cases against three officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian…
Human rights groups and emigre opposition factions expressed regret that Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s death meant he never saw justice for crimes they say he committed during decades as a leading figure in the Islamic republic.A man who rose quickly through the ranks after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution…
The first trial in France of officials of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is to begin on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court will try the three officials for their role in the deaths of two French…
Guns have divided American voters, with nearly equal numbers taking opposite sides in the gun safety debate, according to Pew Research polling. U.S. presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump also have opposing views on guns and gun control. VOA correspondent Scott Stearns reports…
In a landmark move, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, has announced the application for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar. The warrants are based on alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel and Hamas since 7…
Mara, a black veteran, went with her friend Lisa to get a meal at a diner in their neighborhood. What she never expected was that she would be treated so rudely and inhumanely. In fact, she was practically thrown out of the diner. If only they had known what she would do to them the…
On 25th June, 2020, Enugu state govt approved the compensatory land allocation to Barr. Nana Ogbodo 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu on April 30, 2024 issued a vacation order to Barr. Ogbodo, asking him to vacate the property within 30 days Human Rights group battles the Division over the vacation order…