![Human Rights Watch found no evidence Bolivia's former President Evo Morales 'committed terrorism acts' but said he had used the justice system against his opponents during his 13-year tenure [File: Marcelo Ruiz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/612195e7ea144af38540a28689a8c1ea_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The charges were traced to a phone call during which Morales allegedly encouraged violent protests.
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![Public Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is investigating whether war crimes were committed in Afghanistan by the Taliban, Afghan military and US forces [File: Eva Plevier/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/85e5f46522ef46e09297d59bb2047dbf_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
US sanctions target International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and a top aide over Afghanistan probe.
!["For over seven thousand people to die while trying to save others is a crisis on a staggering scale," said Steve Cockburn, Head of Economic and Social Justice at Amnesty International [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/5ba2c7b6586e439bbd1f21cee1cfc9cc_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Report by Amnesty International highlights failure to protect those on the front lines in the fight...
![Amnesty said it gathered testimonies from 7,000 people it estimated were arrested in November 2019 following protests over a significant petrol price rise [File: Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/88a2180946734aa99729a713ae22a810_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Iranian forces committed serious human rights violations against the demonstrators, says new report...
The rights group calls on the gov’t to investigate the alleged human rights violations committed by the police.
![Many of those who were held captive between 2014 and 2017 faced torture, forced conscription, rape and other abuses at the hands of ISIL [File: Rodi Said/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4c8a124ed474413fbc635ff24e544b9e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Some 2,000 survivors of torture, rape and other abuses now live with severe physical illnesses, psychological distress.
![The once-growing space for the LGBTQ community in Lebanon has been shrinking in recent years [File: Hussein Malla/The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/fc7bd7b3ca6a4659a9a80d958f6530e2_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Report documenting accounts of survivors who fled to Lebanon details stigma and gaps in aid for sexual abuse victims.
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Rights group raises concern over unsafe working conditions for front-line workers, low pay, reprisals in some countries.
![Burkina Faso's military is struggling to stem armed violence that has spread across the country, internally displacing almost a million people [Luc Gnago/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/8fe02c56612347c89f85ff9c5332ac81_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Rights group says evidence suggests government security force involved in turning the area into a ‘killing field’.
![In Nice, districts with large ethnic minority populations were subjected to longer overnight curfews than the rest of the city [File: Eric Gaillard/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/83a575c204294b938aefa93008aed810_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Enforcing lockdowns in 12 European nations exposed ‘a disturbing pattern of racial bias’, according to Amnesty report.
![Somali families, displaced after fleeing the Lower Shabelle region amid an uptick in US air raids, wait at an IDP camp near Mogadishu [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/f3859217ec53495683899f5c5fa628e8_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
US forces have not adequately investigated the two aerial attacks in February and March, Human Rights Watch says.
![A man walks past the ruins of a burnt bank, after protests against increased fuel prices, in Tehran, Iran November 20, 2019 [File: Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA via REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/9adf176f461b40da949431fb494a24ad_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
For the first time, senior Iranian official provides casualty figures during unrest last year.
Meet some of the thousands left stateless after the Soviet Union’s dissolution, and those who are working to help them.
![Abu Zeyad was stopped by Israeli authorities at the King Hussein/Allenby border crossing on October 26 [Courtesy of Amnesty International]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/6d7b65db438d4ae1be0409bc433a2d31_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Rights watchdog expresses concern after Israeli authorities set a court hearing for one of its staff.