Turkmenistan has struck a deal to ship natural gas to Turkey via Iran. The official daily Neutral Tyrkmenistan reported Tuesday that Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the chairman of the country’s People’s ...

In Kyrgyzstan, where many still use Russian-style last names, parliament has adopted a bill that promotes traditional Kyrgyz ...

Ilaria Allegrozzi is the Senior Sahel Researcher at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked as Senior Researcher for Amnesty International, investigating conflict-related ...

Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussing ways to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Both Trump and Zelenskyy ...

The US Program leads with the principle of racial justice and equity as a fundamental human right providing the foundational, over-arching, and unifying theme for all our work. Our strategic ...

In 1994, Rwanda’s population of 7 million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85 percent), Tutsi (14 percent) and Twa (1 percent). From April–July 1994, between 500,000 and one ...

The term ethnic cleansing refers to the forced removal of an ethnic group from a territory. A United Nations Commission of Experts investigating the former Yugoslavia defined it as “rendering an area ...

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A person’s ethnic or cultural origin refers to the ethnic or cultural origins of a person’s ancestors. Ancestors may have Indigenous origins, origins that refer to different countries or other origins ...