• UN demands Sudan halts repression and allows monitors access

    <p>United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has demanded that Sudanese authorities must end its repression of protesters; the shutdown of the internet; and grant human rights monitors access to the country.</p> <p>Bachelet said that her office has received reports that detail the deaths of over 100 protestors and many more were injured by security officials during a peaceful sit-in on July 3.</p>
  • Guatemala arrests former military chief accused of genocide

    Luis Enrique Mendoza has been arrested by Guatemala police and is facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1982 massacre of Maya Ixil people.

  • Amnesty International calls for an immediate inquiry into the death of former Egyptian President
    <p>Amnesty International has called for an impartial inquiry into the death of former Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, who died in court on 17 June.</p> <p>In a statement Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa said:</p> <blockquote><p>
  • Nationalists in Myanmar condemns sedition charges against extremist monk Wirathu
    <p>Myanmar’s most prominent nationalist group has condemned sedition charges brought against one of its leading members, Ashin Wirathu, after he had made defamatory remarks about State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the government.</p>
  • Four police killed in Cameroon by a suspected separatist bomb
    <p>A suspected separatist attack has killed four police and wounded six in Cameroon’s English speaking region.</p> <p>The attack follows another attack in the south-west district of Eyumojock on Saturday. No group has claimed responsibility for the most recent attack. The most recent attack&nbsp;marks the first deadly strike using a bomb.</p> <p>The government released a statement which stated:&nbsp;</p> <blockquote><p>
  • 19 killed in Burkina Faso
    <p>An unidentified group killed 19 people and wounded 13 in and around the town, Arbinda in northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government reports.</p> <p>Reuters notes that over 150,000 have been forcibly displaced due to Islamist violence and hundreds of people have been killed in the last few months across the Shel region.&nbsp;</p>
  • US joins diplomatic push to save Sudan talks
    <p>A top US diplomat for Africa, Tibor Nagy, was due to arrive in Khartoum, Sudan, to join an international push to salvage a deal between Sudan’s opposition groups and the military council.</p> <p>Talks between the transitional military council and the civilian opposition broke down when Sudan’s security forces attacked a sit-in protest.</p>
  • Police and protesters clash in Hong Kong
    <p>Police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Hong Kong as protests turn&nbsp;violent.</p> <p>Tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets, surrounding the Legislative Council, ahead of the scheduled debate, to express their anger against government plans to allow extraditions to China.</p>
  • India's Supreme Court orders the release of a journalist detained for defaming BJP leader
    <p>India’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of a journalist, Prashant Kanojia, who had posted controversial tweets about Yogi Adityanath, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Utter Pradesh current&nbsp;Chief Minister.</p>
  • Almost 100 killed in Central Mali attack
    <p>According to local officials, at least 95 Fulani villagers have been killed in an attack on Sobane-Kou, by suspected ethnic Dogon villagers in central Mali, and 19 are reported missing.</p> <p>The attackers also burned down houses and killed livestock. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet but there have been rising tensions between the Dogon and Fulani ethnic groups.</p>
  • Canada complicit in 'race-based genocide' against Indigenous people

    Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG) has found the country is complicit in “race-based genocide” against the Indigenous People.

    The report identified that indigenous women are 12 times more likely to be killed or to disappear than other women in Canada. In total, the inquiry cost over C$92 million and heard over 2,300 testimonies which included survivors of violence and family members.

  • India backtracks on compulsory Hindi education after Tamil Nadu outrage
    <p>The Indian government has revised a controversial draft bill following strong opposition from the southern state of Tamil Nadu.</p> <p>The education bill that looked to make Hindi a mandatory third language across the country, removed specifying Hindi as the third language.</p> <p>The removal has not completely quelled tensions in Tamil Nadu, as the introduction of a third compulsory language is stills seen as a method to impose Hindi.</p>
  • Sudan’s security forces use live ammunition to disperse protesters
    <p>Security forces in Sudan have used live ammunition to disperse protesters in the capital, Khartoum.</p> <p>The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, a medical group affiliated with the protesters said 13 people have been killed and hundreds injured.</p> <p>Protesters have been staging a sit-in for several weeks now, demanding an end to military rule since the fall of Omar al-Bashir in April.</p>
  • Former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar appointed as India's foreign minister
    <p>Former foreign secretary and Ambassador to the US, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, has been appointed as India’s foreign minister, in what marks the first time a diplomat has been appointed as foreign minister without running for election.</p>
  • Exiled Catalan leader denied access to European Parliament
    <p>Carles Puigdemont, an&nbsp;exiled Catalan leader, has been denied access to the European Parliament after he was successfully elected as an MEP in the recent European election. &nbsp;</p> <p>Puigdemont told his supporters on Twitter that he, as well as Catalan minister Toni Comin,&nbsp; were prohibited access to the parliament by the secretary-general.&nbsp;</p>
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