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West Bank: Israeli soldier shooting dead a wounded Palestinian man is 'potential war crime'

‘Israeli forces have a long history of carrying out unlawful killings’ - Philip Luther

Karadzic verdict: 'An important day for justice' but ruling leaves life unchanged for thousands of survivors

Today’s guilty verdict handed down by a UN Court in The Hague against former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadžić for genocide and other crimes under international law marks a major step towa

Egypt: NGOs 'being treated like an enemy of the state', say 14 leading NGOs

Crackdown includes jails sentences, forced closures, travel bans, asset freezes and ever-widening judicial investigations

Turkey has forcibly returned dozens of Afghans despite Taliban persecution risk

Turkey’s forcible return of around 30 Afghan asylum-seekers just hours after the European Union-Turkey refugee deal came into force shows that implementing the deal risks refugees’ live

Jordan: injured Syrian refugees turned away at border - new report

Thousands of Syrian refugees in country also blocked from accessing health services

Russia: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko must get retrial after 'deeply politicised' trial

‘Nadiya never had a hope of proving her innocence’ - John Dalhuisen

Egypt: Planned asset freezes are government's latest tool to eradicate civil society

The Egyptian authorities are expected to freeze the assets of two prominent human rights defenders and their family members tomorrow as part of an investigation into foreign funding of NGOs.