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Armed Groups in Colombia Recruit Children and Train Them to Pilot Explosive Drones

Human Rights Watch found state protection programs have failed to stop recruiters, with social media content helping armed groups expand recruitment.

UNESCO Says 2.4 Million Afghan Girls Barred From Secondary School

Inter‑American Commission Urges Peru to Stop Disciplinary Probes of Judges Who Inapply Amnesty and Limitation Laws

UN General Assembly Approves Volker Türk for Second Four-Year Term

NGO Coalition Says EU Funding Makes It Complicit in Tunisia Migrant Abuses

UN Names Mexican Lawyer Leopoldo Maldonado Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression

World Congress Against the Death Penalty Opens in Paris as Executions Rise

Philippe Sands Awarded 2026 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels

Myanmar Junta Frees 4,335 Prisoners in New Year Amnesty

North Korea Rejects UN Rights Resolution, Warns Countries That Backed It

UN Warns Taliban Decree Expands Executions and Criminalizes Dissent

France Pulls Back From Ousting UN Rapporteur, Delivers Formal Rebuke in Geneva

Taliban Decree Codifies Gendered Penalties, Imposes New Barriers for Abused Women

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Global Tributes Pair With Warnings Over AI Distortion

Myanmar Rejects Rohingya Genocide Allegations in ICJ Merits Hearing

Greek Appeals Court Acquits 24 Rescue Volunteers in Lesvos Case

South Korea Sets 2029 Deadline to End Overseas Adoptions, Puts State in Charge

KP Chief Minister Launches Protest Over Imran Khan’s Detention, Vows ‘Freedom or Shrouds’

Belarus Frees 123 Detainees, Including Nobel Laureate, After U.S. Lifts Potash Sanctions

Human Rights Day Prompts Latin America Stocktake, With Peru’s Social Gaps and Mexico’s Security Strain in Focus