People’s Tribunal on Myanmar State Crimes on Rohingya and Kachin victims to be announced
Little Rohingya girl by the barbed wire fence On March 6-7, representatives of Rohingya and Kachin victim groups of Myanmar are...
India Blooms News Service
Mar 7, 2017
Turkey shuts down a U.S. aid group that helped Syrians
A displaced Syrian family unload their belongings at a makeshift camp for displaced people near the town of Manbij, Syria. (Delil...
Washington Post
Mar 7, 2017
The Hundred Days
Executive Summary The first 100 days of Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, hint at the possibility of much-overdue change in...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2017
Hungary passes bill to detain all asylum seekers
UN refugee agency says automatic detention measure violates the country’s obligations under international law. A Hungarian policeman...
Al Jazeera
Mar 7, 2017
Xenophobia In South Africa Shows A Disconnect With Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a southern African ethical concept that suggests that humanity is interdependent. Rooted in a sense of community, ‘ubuntu’...
Shaazia Ebrahim | The Daily Vox
Mar 6, 2017
North Korea: Crimes Against Humanity Demand Justice
The International Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK) today announced its support for two new United Nations...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 6, 2017
ISIS Accused of Unleashing Chemical Weapons in Mosul
By Belkis Wille The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) has been accused of carrying out a chemical attack in Mosul last week, which, if...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 6, 2017
Sikh Coalition: After Seattle attack we are vigilant
There are more than 500,000 Sikhs in the United States [File: George Widman/AP] On Friday, as Deep Rai worked on his car in his driveway...
Al Jazeera
Mar 5, 2017
Human Rights In Hong Kong Are At A Tipping Point
An elderly activist observes three minutes of silence to mark the moment tear gas was used by police on the same day in 2014, in front of...
Forbes
Mar 4, 2017
Iraq’s Grisly Liberation
Inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh (Joseph Galanakis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) In the Nineveh Plains cities...
Mindy Belz | World Magazine
Mar 3, 2017
Shining a Light on Rohingya Refugees
“It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in.” When she was 11, Hasina Begum was shot in the back. She had found herself...
Dewey Sim | Global Journalist
Mar 3, 2017
The Legend of Aung San Suu Kyi
There has been a dramatic shift in media coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi since 2012, when she travelled to Oslo to pick up her 1991 Nobel...
Mary Scully | Pakistan Today
Mar 3, 2017
