Human rights and journalists' organisations have called for Turkey to urgently ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to establish a United Nations investigation into the possible extrajudicial execution of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
A horrifying video obtained by Amnesty International shows Cameroonian security forces shooting at least a dozen unarmed people during a military operation in the Far North region of the country.
Members of the Honduran security forces used excessive force to control and disperse protests following last year’s disputed presidential election, says the UN.
Amnesty is calling on President Trump to condemn President Duterte’s murderous ‘war on drugs’, and push him to investigate the unlawful killing of thousands of people around the country.
Warning of escalating tension across the North African country due to mobilisation of forces, the worsening security situation in the capital, Tripoli, as well as recent violence in Misrata and Benghazi, the United Nations envoy for Libya yesterday has called on all parties to unite and to put the country ahead of their “own narrow interests.”
A BBC investigation has revealed that tribal peoples living around a national park in India are facing arrest and beatings, torture and death under the Park’s notorious 'shoot-on-sight' policy.
Hundreds of extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances, gang-rapes, sexual slavery, forced abortion, massive recruitment of child soldiers and indiscriminate attacks against civilians with entire villages burned down have been perpetrated by all in sides in South Sudan, says the UN.