Human Rights

Mourners carry the coffin of Chadema youth leader Michael Christian in Mwanza. (AFP)

Human Rights World

Following a disputed election, a violent state crackdown in Tanzania has reportedly left over 1,000 dead, as families desperately search for bodies.

‘They Killed Us Like Animals’: Tanzanian Families Search for Loved Ones After Post-Election Massacre

Iranians walk past shops at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran on Sept. 27, 2025. (AFP)

Human Rights Iran

UN Warns of Rising Repression, Surge in Executions in Post-June Iran

A 2015 photo of asylum seekers on the German-Austrian border. (Photo: DW)

Human Rights Europe

Germany Seeks Agreement with Syria to Deport Rejected Asylum Seekers

Migrants carrying children wait in the water to try to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel. (AFP)

Human Rights Europe

Record Channel Crossings Test UK’s New ‘One In, One Out’ Asylum Deal With France

Human Rights Middle East

Egypt Arrests Dozens Over Social Media Posts, Rights Groups Warn of Growing Repression

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An aerial view shows an olive field in the village of Jindayris in the Afrin region of Syria's rebel-held northern Aleppo province, on Sep. 30, 2022. (AFP)

Kurdistan

The Economic Committee in Afrin: Bureaucracy or a Tool to Legitimize Looting?

Human rights activist Maryam Namazie speaks at a protest in London, Sept. 16, 2023, marking the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. (Photo: AP)

Iran

Iran Carries Out Death Sentence Over Security Officer’s Killing During 2022 Unrest

The women’s cell at Tall Kayf prison, taken in April 2019, shows extreme overcrowding in the prison. (Photo: Human Rights Watch)

Iraq

Iraq seeks to deport hundreds of detained women and children

- This aerial view shows the Khasfa site near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where authorities have begun excavating a mass grave believed to contain thousands of victims of IS on August 17, 2025. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq starts work on IS mass grave thought to contain thousands

Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq's Family Law Amendment Will Create 'Societal Chaos,' Legal Expert Warns

The UN flag flies on a stormy day at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2022. (Photo: AP)

World

Sexual violence in conflicts worldwide increased by 25% last year, UN says

Kurdistan24 correspondent Awara Hawrami (C) talking with Kurdish asylum seekers in Stuttgart. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Europe

Dreams on Hold: Germany’s Tougher Asylum Laws Shatter Hopes of Kurdish Refugees

Kurdish Yezidi refugees. (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan24)

Europe

Germany’s New Deportation Policy Puts Yezidi Refugees at Risk

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