They face greater socio-economic, political, employment, and health-related struggles than non-Indigenous Thousands of asylum seekers have been forcibly transferred and detained in offshore camps, particularly

Reema Omer | DAWN IT has been more than 10 years since Pakistan ratified the ICCPR and the Convention example, the government frequently collaborates with the UN on human rights programmes and provides trainings parliament has passed a number of laws including those that address sexual violence and the rights of transgender

population declined, from 13 percent of the total population in 1930 to 7 percent in 1953 and less than Since the beginning of the conflict, seeking safety and sanctuary from armed groups, rather than looking This was the case for Bedouin herders who got trapped in eastern Ghouta during the regime's siege of Moreover, as the government's veterinary services ran out of animal vaccines and routine drugs, it has withstood the vicissitudes of cyclical drought, of conflict between tribes, and settled societies for more than

More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh after an army crackdown more than a year ago. Still, they found India more peaceful and welcoming than Bangladesh. Indeed, over less than a decade, the Hindu-nationalist government and its supporters succeeded in drastically

More than 20 journalists, and opposition politicians in India were reported to have received the notifications Indian authorities have until today provided no clarity or transparency on whether they have procured The Indian government should also conduct an immediate, independent, transparent, and impartial investigation To ensure transparency, Indian authorities should also publicly disclose information about any previous

tactics, shifting from public demonstrations to calls for nationwide strikes and blockades to paralyze transportation But if compromise — rather than violence — is viewed as an existential political threat, then Bangladesh

Until its closure alongside more than 1,600 nongovernmental organizations last August, it had about religious freedom, violations against the faith practice of Nicaraguan Protestants have been less visible than Additionally, said human rights organization Nicaragua Nunca Más, more than 256 evangelical churches More than 20 were stripped from their citizenship and 65 have been indicted for conspiracy and other

By inexorably adding peaceful activists to the growing list of more than 150 Vietnamese political prisoners law and betraying its duty as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council to protect, rather than

Those arrested were then transferred to ISA-controlled facilities, where they remained arbitrarily detained Less than 24 hours later, he appeared in another video praising the ISA and noting that a committee al-Baaja, the General Secretary of the Libya for All Party and a former member of the 2011 National Transitional

Such restrictions trap women in Gaza even further coming on top of Israeli and Egyptian movement restrictions The 119-page report, “Trapped: How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in Women in Iran continue their decades-long fight against the mandatory hijab, a central feature of the Iran, Qatar, and Yemen remain outliers. In Iran, married women must show their husband’s permission to obtain a passport, and to travel.

The 1981 El Mozote massacre by army troops supported by the air force and trained by the United States left almost 1,000 people dead, more than half of them children. -trained Atlacatl Battalion. President Bill Clinton declassified a tranche of those documents, others remain inaccessible.

U.S. maternal mortality more than doubled since 1999, and most deaths were among black women. Getty Creative By Reuters The number of U.S. women who died within a year after pregnancy more than doubled