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Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters in Mekele, Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 30, 2021. (Nairobi) – Regional authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been abducting and unlawfully recruiting civilians, including children as young as 15, for their forces since at least April 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.

L’ambassadeur d'Israël aux États-Unis, Yechiel Leiter (à gauche), le conseiller au département d’État américain Dan Holler (au centre), et l'ambassadrice du Liban aux États-Unis, Nada Hamadeh (à droite), photographiés peu après avoir signé un accord-cadre trilatéral à Washington, le 26 juin 2026. Derrière eux, le secrétaire d'État américain Marco Rubio et d'autres hauts responsables applaudissaient la signature de l’accord.

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. The UN Human Rights Council held an emergency session today on the imminent risk of atrocities in and around Sudan’s El Obeid, a city in North Kordofan. The session follows an appeal by rights groups for the Council to exercise its prevention mandate by meeting in anticipation, rather than the aftermath, of another round of devastating atrocities in Sudan’s conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at press conference during a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. Turkey is preparing to host the July NATO summit with the Western alliance firmly focused on keeping its most eastern member on side.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (back-center) and others watch, as Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (front-left), counselor Dan Holler (front-center), and Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh (front-right), sign a trilateral framework agreement, in Washington, DC, June 26, 2026.

وزير الخارجية الأمريكي ماركو روبيو (في الوسط في الخلف) وآخرون يشاهدون توقيع اتفاق الإطار الثلاثي بين سفير إسرائيل لدى الولايات المتحدة يحيئيل لايتر (في الأمام إلى اليسار)، والمستشار دان هولر (في الأمام في الوسط)، وسفيرة لبنان لدى الولايات المتحدة ندى حمادة (في الأمام إلى اليمين)، في واشنطن العاصمة، 26 يونيو/حزيران 2026.

Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. This statement was delivered by Human Rights Watch at the 62nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an urgent debate on the human rights situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Sudan held on July 3, 2026.

Myanmar's parliamentary spokesperson, Khaing Khaing Soe, speaks during a press briefing at the presidential palace in Naypyidaw, June 30, 2026. Khin Khin Soe, the spokesperson for Myanmar’s military-controlled parliament, urged the Japanese government on June 30 to resume development aid to the country. At a news conference in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, the spokesperson said “ordinary citizens will suffer” from Japan’s continued suspension of new aid.

Incluso en una región donde los ciudadanos son proclives a llevar sus quejas a la calle, las movilizaciones de Bolivia llaman la atención por su intensidad y duración. Los bloqueos que paralizaron gran parte del país durante siete semanas parecen haber llegado a su fin. Sin embargo, las condiciones que los desencadenaron siguen intactas.

While people in many Latin American countries are prone to take their grievances to the streets, Bolivia stands out for the intensity and duration of protests. The roadblocks that paralyzed much of the country for seven weeks seem to have come to an end, but the conditions that produced them remain unchanged.