Category: Legal-Judicial

The U.N.’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, appealed Friday for $452 million to fund the critical work of the high commissioner’s office in protecting and defending human rights throughout the world this year.The high commissioner’s office is th...

The U.N.’s top human rights official, Volker Türk, appealed Friday for $452 million to fund the critical work of the high commissioner’s office in protecting and defending human rights throughout the world this year.The high commissioner’s office is th...

Five more people in the Netherlands have been registered as suspects in the criminal investigation against an Eritrean human smuggler, the public prosecutor revealed in court in Zwolle on Tuesday. The Eritrean man allegedly led a notorious human smuggl...

A Prague court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2 million case involving European Union subsidies.A prosecutor requested a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of $440,000 for the populist billionaire. T...

A Prague court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2 million case involving European Union subsidies.A prosecutor requested a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of $440,000 for the populist billionaire. T...

WASHINGTON — Lucy Kassa never expected to be a war correspondent. Working for a Norwegian magazine, the freelance journalist wrote about issues related to development and the economy in Ethiopia.But then fighting broke out in her home region of Tigray,...

WASHINGTON — As Ethiopians around the world anxiously watch to see if a fragile peace agreement will hold, a group of people from the diaspora gathered at VOA headquarters in Washington for a town hall discussion.The “Ethiopia: Paths to Peace” televise...

Criminalization of journalism is on the rise around the globe with a record 363 journalists jailed, according to data published Wednesday.In its annual census of journalists jailed in retaliation for their work, the New York-based Committee to Protect ...

KAMPALA — Allies of Ethiopia’s federal military are looting property and carrying out mass detentions in Tigray, according to eyewitnesses and aid workers.The accounts raise fresh concern about alleged atrocities more than three weeks after the warring...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday condemned Iran's repression of peaceful demonstrators following the death of Mahsa Amini and voted to create a high-level investigation into the deadly crackdown.Despite heavy lobbying by ...