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,

persecution of Baha’is since the beginning of the armed conflict between Israel, the United States, and Iran He is the primary caretaker of his 80-year-old mother, who moved to Qatar from Iran when she was 21, Yeganeh’s parents, 89 and 81, who have lived in Qatar for more than 60 years, rely on him for care and Iranian nationality would be at serious risk of persecution if Qatari authorities returned them to Iran The principle requires governments to refrain from returning or transferring people to places where they

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.

Manifold reasons lie behind Iran’s ongoing protests, but the immediate trigger appears to be widespread Rouhani initially struck a much softer tone than many other establishment figures, asserting people’s Five months after the JCPOA was signed, Crisis Group warned that rapid economic transformation was unlikely young and unemployed Iranians more than the middle class. /how-irans-president-rouhani-can-turn-crisis-opportunity?

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

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.  

Saudi Arabia appears eager to start another proxy war with Iran in the Middle East—one that will imperil launching a missile from Yemen near the Saudi capital Riyadh and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran It is clear the Saudi government is moving to escalate its proxy war with Iran by using Lebanon as a This is of particular concern for IDC and people of goodwill who have watched Saudi Arabia and Iran's only taken in these refugees during a time of political uncertainty, but has accomplished a smooth transition

Credit: © IOM/Alexander Bee More than 3,700 refugees have reached the Horn of Africa nation in the past At the same time, IOM has recorded more than 20,000 journeys made from Ethiopia since 10 September, as Stranded in the desert Between 20 and 30 September, more than 3,000 stranded migrants were observed along the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, at the mouth of the Red Sea, after launching a major offensive against the Iran-backed

The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a vicious system of state-sponsored, institutionalised when the security forces killed Rohingya people, torched whole villages to the ground, and drove more than abhorrent – we spoke to women who said they would rather give birth at home in unsanitary conditions than A ban on gatherings of more than four people, applying specifically to Muslim-majority areas, also means

Demonstrations in more than a dozen cities have jolted Morocco for weeks, with the young people behind them showing they can translate digital discontent into a real-world movement that authorities can’t Like other nations swept by Gen Z protests, Morocco is experiencing a youth bulge, with more than half And with opportunity lacking, more than half of Moroccans under 35 say they have considered emigrating It plans to spend more than $5 billion on infrastructure for the event, some from the private sector.

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

Here is important to recall the egregious reporting failures—over more than a decade—of this failing decline in quality and quantity (the statistics cited by Guterres are virtually all from UNAMID and are transparently governments are genuinely committed to combatting conflict-related sexual violence and are willing to translate Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad (see the UN chart, reflecting UNHCR’s figure, in Appendix B)—more than the Tabarat Massacre There have been few examples more revealing of UNAMID impotence and cowardice than