Most of Myanmar’s Rohingya population, estimated at more than one million, have been forced to flee to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar’s military that covers the direct and indirect supply, sale or transfer , including transit and trans-shipment of all weapons, munitions, and other military and security equipment , as well as the provision of training and other military and security assistance. United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Viet Tan

Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that the plight of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar was even worse than More than 688,000 Muslim Rohingya and a few hundred Hindu Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. “This is a tragedy that’s worse than anything that CNN or BBC has been able to portray about what has www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-usa-mattis/u-s-defense-chief-says-rohingya-plight-even-worse-than-media-portrayals-idUSKBN1FC1NF

White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make The horror of right-wing extremism gained national attention in August, when more than a thousand white year in May, a right-wing extremist named Jeremy Christian allegedly stabbed two men to death aboard a train

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But generally their situation is less precarious than the Rohingya. “I can do better work (for the Rohingya) as a researcher than if I was in jail.” “I feel trapped,” Muddinn said. “There is no guarantee for our future.

Ethiopia's government says more than 20 people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic Oromos

September, when the cleansing campaign was in full gear, she gave a speech in which she claimed that “more than https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/12/20/in-2017-no-one-has-fallen-further-than-aung-san-suu-kyi

China’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China’s transplant doctors and industry. Also, China’s reported number of annual transplants, 5,000-6,000, appears understated. American institutions are documented to have trained 344 of China’s transplant doctors. The WHO’s organ transplant task force, for example, was proposed in 2017 by Dr.

In 2022, Iran was Armenia’s fourth-largest source of imports. "Armenia has two open borders, one with Georgia, and the other one with Iran. "If Armenia loses its border with Iran, that would be a catastrophe,” he said. At Armenia’s southernmost tip sits the historic town of Meghri, the gateway to Iran. "But if in 2025, people are still scared of us opening transport links, I think that’s a little absurd

Trucks transporting Afghan nationals, who were expelled from Pakistan, are parked as refugees wait for ahead of its deadline for them to leave, according to the United Nations, in a move that could see more than More than 1.3 million Afghans hold documentation known as Proof of Registration cards, while 750,000 addition to the repatriation from Pakistan , Afghanistan also faces a fresh wave of mass deportations from Iran

Turkey’s transfer of Syrian families to Tell Abyad from Afrin has reignited worries of demographic engineering Turkey has transferred hundreds of people to the northeastern Syrian town of Tell Abyad from the Turkish-controlled A new round of population transfers is reportedly underway. Addressing the UN General Assembly last year, Erdogan said Turkey initially planned to transfer up to Population transfers to the east of the Euphrates River from the western side are increasing along with

The UN Working Group on Involuntarily and Enforced Disappearances has urged Iran to tell the truth about In a letter obtained by Justice for Iran, the Working Group expressed hope that appropriate investigations Maryam Akbari-Monfared, herself a political prisoner, is serving a 15-year sentence in Iran’s notorious ______________________________________________________________________________ (c) 2017 Justice For Iran