Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations says it has received “credible allegations” that more than Secretary general Antonio Guterres said in a report that “more than two thirds” of the deaths were alleged

Threats, Rape, Assault, Wrongful Detention January 26, 2022 (New York) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Riza When Taliban forces took their city in August, Aimal W. and Aryan D. took shelter with two other trans Aimal saw a police car drive up as she ran away and saw men tying Riza up with a rope. More than 10 days passed before Aryan or Aimal heard from Riza again. “You will be a sign to the public and to your trans community,” Riza recalled her captors saying.

Saturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional

Over the course of the year, more than 7,000 protesters, students, journalists, environmental activists Throughout the year Iran’s authorities sought to stifle any sign of dissent by stepping up their crackdown In addition, at least 112 women human rights defenders were arrested or remained in detention in Iran She fled Iran after she was released on bail and has since described in media interviews how she was 700 Ahwazi Arabs were detained incommunicado according to activists outside Iran.

Special Report: March 2023 Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images Although Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sixty-seven countries still criminalize same-sex relations, and fourteen criminalize transgender and Iran has executed thousands of gay people since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran differs from most countries with anti-gay laws by authorizing "gender reassignment." The Taliban's Sharia court system ran parallel to the state judicial system.

President Bashar al-Assad is gathering with the despots of Russia, Turkey, and Iran to draw up the terms terrorism, its capacity to ensure Israel’s survival, and its relationship with states like Turkey, Iran the rise of the Islamic State, a terrorist organization even more bloody-minded and bent on conquest than It may be that his focus on building alliances in Asia will prove, despite the collapse of his Trans-Pacific Partnership, to be of greater long-term significance than his misadventures in Syria.

In many ways, women in Iran are better off than those in many other Middle Eastern countries. In many ways, women in Iran are better off than those in many other Middle Eastern countries, but they all murder cases in Iran were honor killings of women and girls. The number is unknown, however, as Iran does not publicly release crime statistics. Three days after she ran away, Mr.

HARARE (Reuters) - At least 400,000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly spread beyond the country’s borders if regional neighbours did not help tackle the insurgency. Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, home to gas developments worth some $60 billion, is grappling with an insurgency linked to Islamic State that has gathered pace this year, with insurgents regularly taking on the army and seizing entire towns. Valentin Tapsoba, the southern African head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said families who were rebuilding their lives after the destruction caused by Cyclone Kenneth in 2019 have had to flee from militant attacks. “This is a situation starting in one country but if all the countries don’t get their act together to tackle it and wait too long, it could spread within the sub-region,” Tapsoba told Reuters by phone from Pempa in Mozambique. Zimbabwe presidential spokesman George Charamba said leaders from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana and Tanzania were set to meet in Maputo on Monday over the insurgency. Tapsoba said 424,000 people have fled the insurgency to Niassa, Nampula and Pempa and that the number could rise. He said Mozambican authorities put the figure at 570,000. On Friday the Mozambican government, together with UN agencies and other local non governmental groups, will launch an international appeal for funding to help those fleeing Cabo Delgado, Tapsoba said. UNHCR had raised a third of the $19.2 million it requires for shelter, water and sanitation and food next year, said Tapsola. “The numbers are still growing ... so it is a very big concern,” he said. The onset of the rainy season could make it difficult to reach the camps where thousands are living, which would be “a nightmare for these people,” he added. © Reuters 2020, Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; editing by Richard Pullin

in Addis Ababa on Monday night, heightening ethnic tensions and threatening the country's democratic transition

Wednesday as violence broke out in some neighbourhoods in a second day of unrest that claimed more than country's largest Oromo ethnic group, stoked tensions that threaten to derail the country's democratic transition the arrest of Oromo leaders, creates a dangerous situation and is another blow to Ethiopia's troubled transition

Hundreds of people have been killed in the past year in the Sahel nation, and more than half a million In the past five years, more than 900 people have been killed by armed groups, while some 860,000 people Their militaries, under-equipped and poorly trained, are supported by 5,000 French troops in the region

More than one million people have been forced to flee their homes in the violence-ravaged eastern Democratic "Violence has displaced more than one million people in the last six months in these areas," the refugee More than five million people within the country's borders have been uprooted by insecurity, while nearly It was the theatre of two major wars, which ran from 1996-1997 and from 1998-2003, the second of which