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  • African Women Held For Years in India’s Detention Centres

    After serving a two-year sentence, she was not released or deported but transferred to the foreigners registration office (FRRO) have gone unanswered. The officers said her visa was invalid and put the family into a van. She says she was cheated into paying 20,000 rupees (£160) to a centre officer after being promised assistance The same officer beat her with a stick, she says, showing photographs of her injuries.

  • GENOCIDE 1971: Govt moves to get UN recognition

    They will talk to senior UN officials to start the process of getting UN recognition of the Pakistani “This is a tall task, needing support from many,” Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, “We will approach those countries like Russia, India and the UK which had supported our cause in 1971 Shahriar said the foreign ministry has also set up a desk with two secretaries which will monitor the First, it will officially document the atrocities of war against this population by a brutal regime.

  • Tanzania opposition says hundreds killed, UN calls for probe

    The U.N. human rights office said credible reports indicated at least 10 people were killed in protests The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada and Norway issued a joint statement expressing concern over He denied that security officers had used excessive force. Police have imposed an overnight nationwide curfew over the past two nights after government offices HEAVY SECURITY PRESENCE The unrest presents a test for Hassan, who won praise after taking office in

  • Myanmar: Release Wrongfully Arrested Journalists, Protect Press Freedoms

    again hounding journalists in an effort to silence the profession,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer Information said in a statement on its Facebook page that the two journalists as well as two police officers with the intention to share it with foreign media.” A military officer filed the charges at the Htaukkyant Police Station. Foreign journalists told Fortify Rights that immigration officials recently started requiring journalists

  • Turkmenistan on ‘Edge of Catastrophe’

    Gas-rich Turkmenistan facing worst economic crisis in 30 years, coupled with rights concerns, UK think-tank family have been seen to benefit from state expenditure, the report found [Alexander Vershinin/AP] Foreign isolation according to media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, has long attracted investment from foreign which was launched in Westminster on Monday, said the country has a “Potemkin economy” as respectable official As the UK’s Department of International Trade wrote, “no reliable economic data are published in Turkmenistan

  • Is South Africa Prepared for the Next Wave of Xenophobic Violence?

    The group was protesting foreign truck drivers working in South Africa. Then the aggrieved citizens receive tacit encouragement from public officials to deflect the blame to The victims of xenophobic violence have often found that   law enforcement officials responded to attacks who propagate inciteful rhetoric against foreign nationals. and recurring training on racism, xenophobia, and implicit biases for law enforcement and judicial officers

  • Why the Israeli and US War in Iran is "Not Europe's War"

    military involvement in the Iran war because “This is not Europe’s war,” as EU High Representative for Foreign The initial statement  by the E3 group (UK, Germany, France) emphasized the threat presented by Iran’ US officials  have told their European counterparts to prepare to assume primary responsibility for Europe terrorist attacks orchestrated by Iran, similar to the thwarted attack on March 29 against the Paris offices Genocide Watch Recommends: The EU should unite its foreign policy to resist authoritarian regimes in

  • Al-Shabaab Launches Mortar Attacks Near Somalia’s Main Airport

    Security officers patrol near the destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by al-Shabab militants near Mogadishu’s airport on Sunday morning, disrupting international flights to Somalia, a security official two to three mortar shells that struck an open area of the airport early this morning,” a security official Halane camp – a heavily fortified compound that houses the United Nations, aid agencies, foreign missions casualties have been reported so far and some operations at the airport seems to be ongoing, the security official

  • How Iranians Protest: The 2019 Gasoline Protests

    According to state officials, over 7,000 people were arrested as of November 26, 2019. hooligans and saboteurs who spread “intimidation and terror” and coordinated and trained agents of foreign alongside interviews with civilians who claimed that the deaths of their family members were exploited by foreign political dissent, presenting them as being carried out in the service of foreign enemies. levels of violent crackdown and continue to insist that those who oppose the status quo are traitors and foreign

  • Thousands are fleeing into Sudan to escape deadly conflict in Ethiopia

    conflict in their country's northern region, with many more expected to follow, according to Sudanese officials At least 17 Ethiopian military officers have breen arrested on suspicion of treason and accused of conspiring The UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs said in its latest situation report that an aerial and road blockade Violent conflict escalates In a press briefing on Tuesday, Redwan Hussein, Ethiopia's state minister for foreign The UK's Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, said he spoke with Abiy on Tuesday.

  • Australia, Papua New Guinea sign mutual defence treaty

    “We maintain friendships to all enemies, we advocate peace wherever we engage, in as far as foreign relations Marape’s office said last week that the agreement will create a path for 10,000 Papua New Guineans to control of its northern neighbour as a colonial power in 1902, after both countries were colonised by the UK

  • Combating Election Manipulation and Interference in Senegal

    Foreign manipulation of information and electoral interference were the key topics of the event hosted By Enzo Martino Foreign manipulation of information and electoral interference were the key topics of first in a series of four national consultations held under the project Combatting election related Foreign Presented during the event, the report offers a deeper understanding of how foreign actors influence Sebastian Becker, Associate Programme Officer for Digitalization and Democracy at International IDEA,

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