![Since the August election that handed Lukashenko a victory with 80 percent of the vote, mass protests have rocked the ex-Soviet nation [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8TE49R.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Award comes as EU sanctions Belarusian officials amid protests and refuses to recognise Alexander Lukashenko as leader.
Human Rights
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Allowing the use of the ‘panic defence’ in court enables impunity for murderers of LGBTQ people.
![The legislators' letter came as Riyadh on Wednesday began a two-day Women 20 conference before the G20 summit [Mohammed Benmansour/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-21T120557Z_857742242_RC20NJ9IJCT7_RTRMADP_3_G20-SAUDI-WOMEN.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Embarrassment for the kingdom, the current G20 president, as it gears up to host world leaders next...
![A demonstrator protests against Nigeria's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 17 [Temilade Adelaja/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX830UR.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
How a police unit established to combat armed robbery became synonymous with unlawful killings,...
![In 2018, Anglo American and five other companies paid about $390m to settle a class action suit by former gold miners suffering from respiratory disease silicosis [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/angloamerican.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The lawsuit alleges ‘generations of children’ have been poisoned by the mine’s operations in Kabwe.
![Bachelet said Indian activists and rights defenders have come under mounting pressure in recent months [File: Denis Balibouse/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/83f31543ec1649d9ae4999c5459baeb0_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urges India to protect human rights defenders and NGOs.
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Manchester United’s Nigerian footballer lashes out the gov’t after reports emerged of soldiers shooting protesters.
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Friends of the Earth and Survie want Total to disclose how it is addressing alleged adverse impact of its activities.
![The annual re-enactment of the country's last documented mass lynching; people recreate the contentious primary democratic elections in Georgia, along with the lynching [Jaclynn Ashly/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Picture-11-AJE.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
How a mass lynching and the people re-enacting it are forcing the US to confront the truth of its past and its present.
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The bodies were recovered from newly discovered mass graves in Tarhuna, south of capital Tripoli.
![Sehar Bibi holds a photograph of son Asadullah Haroon, in Shamshatu refugee camp near Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar [Abdul Majeed/AFP] (AFP)](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_8QR34Y-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Life for one of the last Afghans in the detention facility defined by hunger strikes, force feedings and isolation.
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Senior police official said officers reserve right to use firearms on demonstrators against President Lukashenko.
![Bosnian Muslims toss 3,000 roses into the Drina River, each representing people killed in the 1992-95 war, in the eastern Bosnian town of Višegrad, on May 26, 2012 [File: AP/Amel Emric]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_120526130550.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
In the Bosnian town of Višegrad, the local authorities are trying hard to whitewash genocidal crimes through tourism.
A year since Kashmir lost its autonomy, narratives of the region’s past, present and future are as contested as ever.