inconspicuous, sitting and sipping water in northern Addis Ababa while he talks softly of protest, death It is a matter of life and death.” Meles Zenawi, who ruled Ethiopia from 1991 until his death in 2012, frequently said he did not believe There will doubtlessly be further waves of unrest, and detentions, repression and deaths.

the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) provides evidence that the genocidal act known as ‘slow death They have endured a decade of such ‘slow death’ treatment and for a generation of Rohingya children, As documented by BROUK, such conditions of life have led to the preventable deaths of women and children Rohingya continue to be subject to many other severe human rights violations including deaths, beatings

(Courtesy of Emmanuel family) Nigerian Police Stand By as Christian Student Is Stoned to Death By Douglas students of blasphemy in a WhatsApp message on May 11, was swarmed by 180 protestors calling for her death then start a catering business,” according to the relative who watched helplessly as she was beaten to death

Five years after a genocidal wave of anti-Muslim violence forced more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims into camps in the primarily Buddhist nation of Myanmar, the recently-elected government of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have given up any pretense of trying to protect the Muslim minority. Among the victims of the systematic persecution of the Rohingya is Rosmaida Bibi, a tiny frail 4-year-old with big brown eyes, one of a multitude of Rohingya children suffering terribly from malnutrition in a camp that authorities refuse to let anyone leave. Barely the size of a 1-year-old, Rosmaida can hardly walk or even speak. Bones protrude visibly against the pallid skin of her chest. “This is worse than a prison,” said Rosmaida’s 20-year-old mother, Hamida Begum, referring to the makeshift hut where her daughter was born. Told The Associated Press. “I want to give her an education. I want to send her to school like all the other kids. But it’s not possible because she’s so sick … she cannot grow.” The Rohingya have long been denied citizenship, freedom of movement, and other basic rights in Myanmar. But Begum says that back at her former home in Sittwe, Buddhists and Muslims had managed to coexist peacefully. Then, on June 5, 2012, Buddhist mobs began attacking Muslims and burning their homes. Begum says she ran away barefoot, only realizing later that her feet had been badly bloodied during her escape. Today, with the exception of a single district, Muslims are banned from walking the streets of Sittwe. Despite optimism after Suu Kyi’s party swept elections last year, Myanmar’s government has continued to condone persecution, and even “mass killing, mass rape, [and] widespread forced labor,” according to the advocacy group Fortify Rights. In response to an attack by a Rohingya insurgent group that killed nine officers in October, the government responded by burning entire villages, raping their women, and killing an unknown number of people as 75,000 Rohingya fled into neighboring Bangladesh, according to the United Nations. Myanmar’s government offers a differing account of events — according to the government, only 52 people went missing or died during the attacks, and only extremists carried out any killings. A UNICEF report from May estimates that 150 children under the age of 5 die every day in Myanmar. But the U.N. lacks statistics from within the Rohingya camps, where aid workers say the situations is far worse — and where half of all inhabitants are children. Watch video of the Rohingya camps below. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) 2017 New York Times

The fighting that took place northeast of Kyauk Kyar village prompted hundreds of civilians to flee their He also said that the civilians detained by authorities were not involved with the ethnic army. “The people who have been rounded up are all civilians,” he said. “It impacts the well-being of local civilians. “Nobody contacted us to let us know about his death,” the relative said.

By Mark Trevelyan An Uzbek service member guards a road during a government-organised press visit in Nukus, capital of the northwestern Karakalpakstan region, Uzbekistan July 6, 2022. REUTERS/Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov/File Photo Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Wednesday signed a decree to lift a state of emergency in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan, where at least 18 people were killed when security forces broke up protests earlier this month. Mirziyoyev said on his website that the emergency measures, which included a curfew, were being lifted from 5 a.m on Thursday (midnight GMT on Wednesday) because order had been restored. He had declared a month-long state of emergency on July 2 after protests erupted over a proposal to strip the republic of its autonomous status. The authorities said 14 protesters and four law enforcement officers were killed in the violence, which it blamed on unspecified "foreign forces". It was the deadliest unrest since 2005 in Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Central Asian state with a record of clamping down hard on dissent. Human rights activists and opposition politicians have denied the violence was directed from abroad and rejected statements by the authorities that demonstrators were high on drugs and alcohol. Pulat Ahunov, an Uzbek opposition politician based in Sweden, said he welcomed the lifting of the emergency but urged the authorities to go further. "They also need to release all the demonstrators who were detained, and an ombudsman's commission needs to investigate the use of disproportionate force against demonstrators," he told Reuters. Rights activists are demanding information from the authorities about people they say are still missing or in detention, but say their efforts have been hampered by the state of emergency and by an internet shutdown since the unrest broke out. It was not clear if web access would now be restored. By lifting the emergency nearly two weeks before its scheduled expiry, Mirziyoyev signalled his confidence that he has weathered the biggest crisis of his six-year rule. It prompted him to quickly drop the proposal to take away the autonomy of Karakalpakstan - a status that, at least on paper, gave it the right to secede on the basis of a referendum. He has also twice extended a consultation period for further constitutional reforms that would see presidential terms extended from five to seven years and allow him to run for two more terms. With an area larger than Tunisia, Karakalpakstan has a population of just 1.8 million people but makes up over a third of Uzbek territory. The republic is blighted by health and environmental problems resulting from intensive Soviet-era farming methods and the drying-up of the Aral Sea. Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Cynthia Osterman © 2022 Reuters. All rights reserved

By Rachel Pannett and Miriam Berger A protest in Tehran on Monday over the death of Mahsa Amini while (AFP/Getty Images) Protests in Iran over the death of a young woman while in the custody of its so-called The death of Mahsa Amini , 22, a Kurdish woman from western Iran , during a visit to the capital last Raisi did not address Amini’s death, and accused the West of having a “double standard” on human rights The Interior Ministry previously ordered an investigation into Amini’s death at Raisi’s behest.

file photo) Kazakhstan's deputy prosecutor-general, Aset Shyndaliev, says six people were tortured to death The previous death toll provided by the authorities was 230, including 19 law enforcement officers. by domestic and international human rights organizations to launch an international probe into the deaths

By CARA ANNA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A least 150 people starved to death last month in Ethiopia’s embattled (Claire Nevill/WFP via AP) The starvation deaths occurred in six communities as well as in camps for It is the largest public assessment yet of starvation deaths, though The Associated Press reported at least 125 deaths in a single district earlier this year. million people are displaced in Tigray, did not immediately respond to a question about starvation deaths

As they marched, many chanted "Death to Arabs" and some waved banners reading: "Death to terrorists".

The most recent data come from 2016, when maternal deaths shot up by 65 percent and infant mortality To give birth in Venezuela today is to risk death — for both the woman and her child. Ms. Hospital officials had declined to give her a death certificate, and with no money for a burial, she His death certificate cited prematurity, bleeding around the brain and other factors. Critically, the dearth of medical supplies is colliding with the growing needs of Venezuelan women.

A displaced woman farmer was killed on Sunday when an aircraft of the Sudanese Air Force launched a bombardment on the areas east of Nierteti in Central Darfur. Farmers reported that the air force bombed the areas near Kutrum, three kilometres east of Nierteti, killing a displaced woman who had returned to the area for farming. They said the air force also bombed the villages of Kuweila, Berbera, Beringo, and Kody in Jebel Marra, however there are no reports of casualties. They said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested six people, including two women in those areas on Sunday. Surviving the Antonovs The converted Russian-made Antonov 25 cargo aircraft are infamous in Darfur because their arrival means the indiscriminate bombing of villages. In the article entitled "Surviving the Antonovs in Darfur," Radio Dabanga editor-in-chief Kamal El Sadig explains that the sound of the cargo aircraft’s engine is unlike that of a helicopter or a jet fighter, and sets in motion a desperate attempt by villagers to find a shelter with their family and animals as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the attempts are often not successful for all people. The Antonovs are only capable of rolling barrel bombs out of their cargo hatch. The barrels, filled with shrapnel and high explosives, are thus far from accurate. As the weapon is deemed indiscriminate it is illegal under international law. In addition to the modified Antonovs, Russian Mi-17 and Mi-32 helicopter gunships, Sukhoi and MiG-29 fighter jets, and Chinese-made A-5 ‘Fantan’ jets have all been sighted in Darfur according to the Small Arms Survey. Copyright 2018 Radio Dabanga