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International Criminal Court Wins E.U.’s Top Human Rights Prize

The win is a show of support for the International Criminal Court as the Trump administration moves to thwart its work.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague last month.
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To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look

Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.

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Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.
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To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look

Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.

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Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.
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How a Trillion-Dollar Industry Launders Illegal Gold

The line between dirty and clean gold is an industry fiction. Wall Street and governments profit off gold from criminals, gangsters and those who exploit children.

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U.S. Officials Condemn West Bank Attacks as Netanyahu Casts Doubt on Them

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has downplayed accounts of recent extremist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank amid the annual olive harvest.

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Masked Israeli settlers driving through Abu Falah in the West Bank on Saturday.
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Egypt’s President Says He Will Leave Office in 2030

Par : Euan Ward
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has so far ruled for over a dozen years, pledged to respect constitutional limits while also seeking parliamentary approval to help defend Saudi Arabia.

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President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, last year. His earlier promises to respect presidential term limits that were then changed have raised questions about whether he will honor his latest pledge.
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Caracas Is Eerily Safe After Deadly Police Raids in Venezuela Killed Thousands

Crime plunged after police raids killed thousands. Venezuela is now withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it investigates this blood-soaked campaign.

Visitors to a former safe house used by an armed gang in Cota 905, a neighborhood in Caracas.
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Caracas Is Eerily Safe After Deadly Police Raids in Venezuela Killed Thousands

Crime plunged after police raids killed thousands. Venezuela is now withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it investigates this blood-soaked campaign.

Visitors to a former safe house used by an armed gang in Cota 905, a neighborhood in Caracas.
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U.S. Is Sending Hundreds of Troops to Latin America

The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.

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U.S. soldiers and Panamanian police officers took part in a jungle training exercise at Fort Sherman in Colón province, Panama, earlier this year.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Sanctions on 2 Groups Aiding the I.C.C.

The ruling prevents the administration from penalizing two rights groups for working to provide information for the International Criminal Court’s war crimes investigations.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague last month.
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This Copper Mine Led to a Civil War. Can Reopening It Fund a New Nation?

Rising demand for copper has fueled interest in Bougainville’s Panguna mine, which has been shut for four decades. Yet some fear a rush to reopen risks a return to violence.

Workers clearing debris within a former processing plant as part of preparations to reopen the Panguna copper and gold mine.
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The Taliban Are Using Europe’s Fear of Migrants to Their Advantage

European nations that condemn the Taliban government for its human rights record are seeking its help to deport refugees back to Afghanistan.

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Celebrations in the streets of Kabul during the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power on Aug. 15.
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Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Forged Her Career Under Apartheid

Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.

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Navi Pillay, in Nuremberg, Germany on Friday.
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Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The choice drew condemnation from Israel over Ms. Pillay’s role leading a U.N. commission that said the country had committed genocide against Palestinians.

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Navi Pillay in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday.
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Israel Denounces the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay

Ms. Pillay, a human rights lawyer, was drawn into the international spotlight last year as chair of a commission that found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

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Palestinians waiting for food distribution in Gaza City last year.
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Navi Pillay is known for her work in conflict zones across the world.

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Navi Pillay received the news that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday while atttending an annual conference of human rights lawyers and judges in Nuremberg, Germany.
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In South Africa, Pillay forged a career fighting apartheid.

Navanethem Pillay

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Navi Pillay, right, with Edwin Cameron, left, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, center, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2013.
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Navi Pillay, a South African Human Rights Lawyer, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

A U.N. commission led by Ms. Pillay that investigated the war in Gaza found last year that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians.

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Navi Pillay was recognized “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
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U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds

A report by the secretary general warned that new technologies could be used to access and criminalize people’s innermost thoughts.

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While neurotechnologies have become powerful clinical tools for patients with brain injuries, the United Nations on Thursday warned that future technologies could be abused by governments.
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Mass Trials Put Hundreds in One Dock in El Salvador

Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense.

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Inmates during a mass hearing at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison in April in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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Live From the Barracks: Three Juntas Launch TV Channel

Three African countries have started Tafouk TV, a Russia-partnered broadcast channel, after throwing out Western journalists and cracking down on local media.

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At a news conference in Bamako, Mali, in May. Military juntas have taken over Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in recent years, cracking down on journalists and struggling to stop extremist groups like Al Qaeda.
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Biljana Plavsic, a Former Bosnian Serb Political Leader, Has Died

Biljana Plavsic, a Bosnian Serb, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. She later recanted and said she “would do the same again.”

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Biljana Plavsic during her first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague in 2001.
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