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September 26, 2024 Q & A

Q&A: Democratic Republic of Congo Conflict in North Kivu Province

Abuses by the Congolese Army, Rwandan Forces, M23, and Other Armed Groups

Medical staff at the ICRC-funded Ndosho hospital tend to a child injured from a 122mm rocket artillery strike on a displacement camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivu province, DR Congo, May 4, 2024.

September 24, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)

The COP29 stand at Baku Boulevard in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 28, 2024.

September 18, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers on Advancing Accountability for past and ongoing crimes under international law in Afghanistan

September 10, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: Israeli Military’s Use of Digital Tools in Gaza

A technologist with the Israeli military's Matzpen operational data and applications unit works at his station, at an Israel Defense Force base in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 11, 2023.

August 28, 2024 Q & A

Q&A: Why Should The Mandate of The Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) For Sudan Be Extended

Amnesty International, DefendDefenders, and Human Rights Watch Q&A on the situation in Sudan

July 26, 2024 Q & A

Guinea’s 2009 Stadium Massacre Trial

Questions and Answers

Eleven men accused of responsibility for the 2009 massacre and mass rape of pro-democracy protesters by forces linked to a former military junta in Guinea.

July 17, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: The Hamas-Led Armed Groups' October 7, 2023 Assault on Israel

Photographs of Israelis taken as hostages during an October 7 attack by Hamas-led fighters, at a protest demanding their release, outside the HaKirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 17, 2023.

June 12, 2024 Q & A

Q&A: Transnational Repression

June 2024

Illustration of a map being used to bind someone's mouth

May 24, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: New EU Law on Corporate Value Chains

European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023.

May 9, 2024 Q & A

Q&A: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

A man walks using crutches in a refugee camp

May 8, 2024 Q & A

Use of Force in the Occupied West Bank

Questions and Answers on the Applicable International Law

Israeli forces enter the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a large-scale search-and-arrest operation on November 23, 2023.

April 8, 2024 Q & A

India’s General Elections, Technology, and Human Rights Questions and Answers

A model of a woman's finger pressing the button of an electronic voting machine

January 23, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: Facebook, Instagram, and Digital Targeting of LGBT People in MENA

Secure Our Socials Campaign, Platform Accountability, and Human Rights Responsibilities

December 3, 2023 Q & A

Questions and Answers: Migrant Worker Abuses in the UAE and COP28

Workers at a construction site as the UAE implements a midday work break from 12.30pm to 3.30pm for laborers to help cope with the heat, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 15, 2023.

November 28, 2023 Q & A

Questions and Answers on first German trial for serious crimes committed in The Gambia

November 28, 2023

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