Politics

September 3, 2017

This week, Suciwati Munir, the widow of Indonesian human rights defender Munir Thalib will conduct what has become a grim, annual ritual – a public appeal for justice and accountability on the anniversary of her husband’s September 7, 2004 murder.

Photo:New satellite imagery obtained by Human Rights Watch shows the complete destruction of the village of Chein Khar Li
Satellite imagery

Photo:North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un (R) and Chinese Politburo standing committee member Liu Yunshan (L) wave from a balcony towards participants of a mass military parade at Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang on October 10, 2015.

3 September 2017
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned today's underground nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as “yet another serious breach of the country's international obligations.”

Photo:Iraqi refugee children who fled from Tal Afar and found shelter in schools, mosques and unfinished buildings in the area of Sinjar, in Ninawa governorate.

1 September 2017
Iraq: ISIL targeting civilians to 'avenge' loss of Tal Afar, UN envoy says

Photo:A United Nations Chinese battalion involved in the demining of the town of Hiniyah in Lebanon prepares to detonate unexploded ordnance.

Photo:An elderly woman sits outside her makeshift dwelling in Afghanistan.

Photo:People displaced by the floods take temporary refuge along a road in southern Nepal.

Photo:Displaced children and adults in Syria are seen in a vehicle after fleeing from ISIL-controlled areas in rural Raqqa to Ain Issa, the main staging point for displaced families, some 50 kilometres north of Raqqa city.

Photo:A Rohingya woman and her child at a makeshift camp outside Sittwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.