– UN official urges Muslim-majority countries to persuade clerics in Kandahar to lift ban on girls’ education and women’s employment. KABUL, Afghanistan – The United Nations has called on the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the Afghan Taliban transitional government for gender discrimination. The U.N...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Four months into Sudan’s conflict, the situation is spiralling out of control, with mass displacement and millions on the verge of famine, humanitarian organisations have warned, urging immediate international action. Since Sudan’s conflict erupted on April 15, the country has been plunged into a dir...
LONDON (AA) – An asylum seeker who was among those removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge after Legionella bacteria were recently found said the government is endangering migrants and treating them like “less than animals,” according to the local media. Controversy over the government’s barge plan continued after all asylum s...
CANAKKALE, Türkiye (AA) – The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued 27 irregular migrants who were pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities. The Afghan migrants were rescued from a rubber boat off the Ayvacik district in the northwestern Canakkale province, according to the Coast Guard Command. The migrants were taken to the ...
JERUSALEM, Palestine – A group of Jewish settlers raided a Palestinian school in the West Bank. According to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency, Jewish settlers raided the Ra’s et-Tin school in the eastern Ramallah area where Bedouin communities live. They broke the windows of the school. In October 2020, Israel decided to...
-According to human rights groups, visit was sponsored by Chinese government to promote official narrative that Uyghurs in Xinjiang are doing well BEIJING, China – The visit of 25 foreign diplomats to China’s Xinjiang province has come under fire from human rights groups. The diplomats from Dominica, Myanmar, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbe...
-As part of Operation Lone Star, launched by Governor Abbot, asylum seekers have been trafficked across U.S. for months in deplorable conditions AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Governor Greg Abbott is under fire after a 3-year-old migrant child died during a bus ride from Brownsville, Texas, to Chicago, Illinois. The child’s parents were als...
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A boat with Rohingya people on board, reportedly en route to Malaysia, has sunk in the Bay of Bengal near Myanmar’s Rakhine state. According to media reports, 45 of the 55 people on board are still missing. The government-backed Rakhine Daily News reported that the boat carrying Rohingya had left Rathedaung town [&hel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh’s foreign secretary has reiterated the call to repatriate Rohingya refugees to third countries. Masud Bin Momen made the call during a meeting on Thursday with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dhaka. “Ensuring accountability for the atroc...
WASHINGTON – As many as 750 academics have criticized the American Jewish community for ignoring Israeli “apartheid” and ethnic cleansing. A letter signed by notable academics such as Benny Morris, David Myers, Dov Waxman, Shaul Magid and Daniel Levy called on the leaders of American Jews to recognize the concept of apartheid in Is...
