Amnesty International has called on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to vote against Gina Haspel's nomination as the next director of the CIA pending an investigation of her alleged role in the CIA's programme of torture and enforced disappearances.
The World Council of Churches has urged the international community to find a way to break the cycle of violence in Syria. The statement comes two days after the USA, France and the UK carried out missile strikes following a suspected Syrian government chemical weapons attack.
Several groups have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s arbitrary detention of asylum seekers fleeing persecution, torture, or death.
Members of the Honduran security forces used excessive force to control and disperse protests following last year’s disputed presidential election, says the UN.
During the first month of 2018, three people – two male and one female –have been executed in Iran for crimes they committed when they were 15 or 16 years old.
Armed groups and civilian authorities in the Libyan coastal city of Misrata are blocking thousands of people from the town of Tawergha from returning to their hometown after seven years of forced displacement, says Human Righrs Watch.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an immediate and unconditional de-escalation of violence in Syria as civilians in the war-torn country suffer through one of the most violent periods in nearly seven years of conflict.