NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Women who continue to clean human excreta by hand in parts of India have challenged the Hindu nationalist government’s claim that manual scavenging has been eliminated nationwide. They say their continued work is living evidence that the outlawed and deeply caste-linked practice persists. Women from Uttar Prades...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — Azerbaijan’s government carries out more than 95 percent of the country’s mine-clearance work itself, an approach a UN-Habitat official said could be a model for other mine-affected countries, though the effort is concentrated in territory whose recapture displaced its Armenian population. Erfan Ali, direc...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Muslim family was allegedly dragged from their car and assaulted by a mob following a road accident in northern India, with attackers reportedly telling them to “go to Pakistan” in an apparent Islamophobic attack. The violence erupted in Rewari district of Haryana state after the family’s car collided with […...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (MNTV) — Sri Lanka has failed to move with sufficient urgency to prosecute grave abuses committed during decades of conflict despite reopening several prominent investigations, Human Rights Watch said, warning that victims and their families continue to wait for justice. In a 49-page report, the rights group examined seven m...
QAMISHLI, Syria (MNTV) — Kurdish women fighters who became internationally known for their role in defeating Islamic State militants are seeking to preserve an organized combat role as Syria’s new authorities reshape the country’s military and security forces. The Women’s Protection Units, known as the YPJ, fought alongside the US-backed Syria...
TEL AVIV, Israel (MNTV) — Israel has prepared plans to illegally remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and is waiting for the United States to determine where they would be taken, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz. Katz made the remarks at a conference organized by Israeli news outlet Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, saying Israel [&h...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — For Muslims in a remote village along Papua New Guinea’s Highlands Highway, Friday prayers once meant gathering in temporary bush shelters. That changed on Aug. 1, when Musa Stranger, one of Australia’s most followed Muslim converts, helped open a permanent mosque built largely by hand, the Australian Mu...
By Ayse Oz ISTANBUL, Turkiye (MNTV) — In Turkish metropolis Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district, a small shop selling traditional Uyghur clothing and accessories has become more than a marketplace. For Uyghur women living in exile, it is also a gathering place. Here they can speak their language, share memories of home and find comfort among peop...
ISTANBUL (MNTV) – Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuela’s captured leader Nicolas Maduro, has recounted how the first photo of his father after his detention by the US was taken, saying Maduro wanted the image to convey a message of strength and resistance. In a post on US social media company X, Maduro Guerra said […]
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Prisoners from India’s historically marginalized castes are allegedly being segregated and forced to clean toilets and perform manual scavenging in several prisons in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, exposing the persistence of caste-based labor practices even inside state institutions. The allegations involve centra...
