Burundi MPs approve police raids without warrants
NAIROBI – The lower house of Burundi's parliament has voted to allow security forces in the politically tense nation to conduct night...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Apr 19, 2018
Russia: One year after ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya, still no justice for victims
April 4, 2018 The Russian authorities have abjectly failed to take effective action in response to the violent persecution of gay men in...
Amnesty International
Apr 19, 2018
Ethiopia’s Crisis: What is Causing the Political Turmoil and Ethnic Tension?
April 3, 2018 || By Betre Y. Getahun Ethiopia has been under a state of emergency for much of the past two years. The first state of...
Africa.com
Apr 19, 2018
Iraq launches 'deadly strikes' against ISIL inside Syria
Iraqi PM's office says F-16 fighter jets carried out air raids near the border in coordination with Syrian army. Iraq says it has carried...
Genocide Watch
Apr 19, 2018
How Crimean Muslims defy Moscow's pressure
Crimean Tatar leaders say they fear another pro-Russian crackdown on the persecuted Muslim community. Bakhchisaray, Ukraine (February 2,...
Al Jazeera
Apr 19, 2018
Yazidis who suffered under Isis face forced conversion to Islam amid fresh persecution in Afrin
Islamist rebels allied to Turkey accused of destroying temples of those following the non-Islamic sect Shekh Qamber and his wife Adula...
The Independent
Apr 19, 2018
INVESTIGATION: Survivors of herdsmen attacks tormented by deaths, rape at Benue IDP camps
Fear of the known – killer herdsmen – dissuaded taxi drivers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, from taking the ICIR reporter to Guma...
Chikezie Omeje | International Centre for
Apr 18, 2018
Relief Agencies Prepare Rohingya Refugees for Monsoon Threats
By Maaz Hussain With experts warning that heavy rains and cyclonic storms could devastate new Rohingya settlements in Bangladesh,...
VOA (Voice of America)
Apr 18, 2018
Apps for refugees suffering psychological trauma and depression
A German refugee support organization has developed apps for smartphones to help migrants living with psychological symptoms of stress....
Marion MacGregor | InfoMigrants
Apr 18, 2018
Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park
The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’s experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama,...
Washington Post
Apr 18, 2018
Rwanda: Genocide Suspects in UK Face Fresh Investigation
Five key suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi currently on British soil have been placed under fresh investigations, UK...
The New Times
Apr 18, 2018
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya
By Joanne Lu For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that...
United Nations
Apr 17, 2018
