India uses Tear Gas and Batons Against Youth Protests
By Reuters August 11, 2026 Students and unemployed youth in Jharkhand, one of India’s poorer states, launched the protests late last month over the alleged wrongdoing including recruitment test paper leaks. Police used water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest in Ranchi, India, on Monday. Credit: Rajesh Kumar and AFP via Getty Images in NBC BHUBANESWAR, India — Police in eastern India used tear gas, batons and water cannon to disperse thousands of youth proteste
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Aug 11
Country Report: Costa Rica July 2026
By Juliana Girotto Migrants at the Paso Canoas refugee camp in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, on August 9.Ezequiel Becerra/AFP/Getty Images/FILE Costa Rica is historically regarded as one of Latin America's strongest countries in terms of defending human rights and political stability. Over the past few years, however, several trends have drawn concern from United Nations (UN) agencies and regional human rights groups, such as strain on migrants and refugees, a rollback of protectio
Genocide Watch
Aug 10
Country Report: Japan July 2026
By Genocide Watch Image by Bloomberg via Getty Images Japan has long practiced historical revisionism regarding their Empire-era atrocities. From the late 1800s to 1945, the Japanese Empire committed numerous war crimes against multiple peoples across the Asia-Pacific region. Often referred to as the Asian Holocaust, these atrocities included genocide and other mass atrocities during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Its actions included, starvation, forced assim
Genocide Watch
Aug 10
Of those who don’t get to be Cockroaches
By Zainab Amal August 7, 2026 Image credit: Photo taken by Shaheen Abdulla, July 2026. Photo used with permission. Since 2014, India has been governed by Hindutva ethnonationalism, intensifying decades of structural marginalization of Muslims through state-sanctioned impunity and systematic victimization. This trajectory found its mass expression in 2019, when Muslim students led protests, including months-long roadblocks, against the Citizenship Amendment Act until state bru
Critical Muslim Studies
Aug 10
Putin Is Building A Legal Purgatory For Exiled Russians
By Mike Ekel August 6, 2026 (Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) At the time he fled Russia in September 2022, Aleksandr Menyukov was a witness in a criminal investigation targeting a close friend: a poet whose street readings of anti-war verses were considered a crime. Hundreds of thousands of Russians had fled after President Vladimir Putin that month ordered a military mobilization to shore up the sputtering invasion of Ukraine. But for Menyukov, who provided legal ad
Pakistan's army chief turns on hardline Islamist groups
By: Asif Shahzad, Ariba Shahid, Mubasher Bukhari and Rick Noack August 6 2026 Police officers in riot gear stand guard as supporters of various religious and political parties attend a protest rally against Geo News over content aired during a program marking the holy month of Muharram, in Karachi, Pakistan, July 3, 2026. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - When blasphemy allegations against a Christian family prompted a mob of hundreds to as
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Aug 7
