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  • 'I Feel Trapped.' Rohingya Muslims Describe a Life of Fear in Myanmar's Biggest City Yan

    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 says ethnic clashes kill more than 20 in past week

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

  • Pakistan starts deporting registered Afghan refugees

    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

  • OPINION: In 2017, no one has fallen further than Aung San Suu Kyi

    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

  • First Call for Abstracts | Conference “Troubling Seasons of Hate” | Johannesburg, December 2017

    often spectacularized in the media, we seek to understand the quotidian permissions that enable the trans

  • Israel May Decimate Hamas, but Can It “Win” This War?

    movements regenerate, and “sometimes the next leadership turns out to be more radical, more extreme, than Tehran has long been the primary source of arms, financial aid, and military training for Hamas, which The U.S. has sanctioned more than four hundred Iranian individuals and companies for providing support Iran has expressed voluble support for Hamas since the war began. Defeating non-state actors is a lot more complicated than warring or making peace with a state.

  • Turkey's occupation of NE Syria includes population transfers

    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

  • Lebanese civilians flee amid Israeli strikes on Beirut

    The strikes came shortly after Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel for the first time in more than 12 In Beirut, public schools transformed into emergency shelters. Hezbollah stated Monday’s attacks were retaliation for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei He added that Israel has mobilised over 100,000 reservists since the war with Iran began on Saturday. widened the conflict that has spread through the Middle East since the United States and Israel attacked Iran

  • Israel’s bombing of Evin Prison incites rights advocates

    The strikes were the deadliest of the 12-day Israel-Iran war. Credit: Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times About 100 transgender inmates are missing after their said Reza Shafakhah, a prominent human rights lawyer, who added that the government often treats being transgender This account of what transpired at Evin during and just after Israel’s attack is based on interviews Female prisoners also were evacuated by force, shackled in pairs, and transferred to Gharchak prison,

  • Iranian Activist Sentenced to Death

    recent statement on X (formerly Twitter), Farsani expressed hope that the country’s Supreme Court of Iran the international community and the public to advocate for her brother and all political prisoners in Iran country’s legal system, which is not independent, when he was arrested in February 2023 and subsequently transferred This sentence comes amid an escalating use of the death penalty in Iran, following the unprecedented According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), executions have more than doubled in the

  • Drug trafficking imperils Indigenous reserves in Peru

    by Enrique Vera on 3 November 2023 | Translated by Sarah Engel Deforestation for illegal drug production An airstrip inside Otishi National Park, which allows planes to transport illicit cargo in and out of Mochileros, or “backpackers,” walk along trails like this one to transport processed drugs in and around Now, according to Cairuna, those who underwent the training are transitioning from being communal park This is a translated and adapted version of a story that was first reported by Mongabay’s Latam team

  • Hezbollah has huge arsenal if Israel invades Lebanon

    Analysts estimate Hezbollah has between 130,000 and 150,000 rockets and missiles, more than four times They have also damaged hundreds of homes and ignited fires that burned more than 40,000 acres.   Originally made by the Soviet Union and copied by Iran, they can travel 12 to 24 miles and are fired More recently, in 2022, he claimed Hezbollah has the ability to “transform our rockets ... into precision “Hezbollah is far better equipped than Hamas,” Shaikh said.  

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