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  • Somalia's drought impact worsened by aid cuts

    Save the Children Somalia director, Mohamud Mohamed Hassan, says the recent foreign aid cuts have had Things are really, really desperate," said Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of

  • A Massacre Unfolding in Sudan

    . would massacre people,” said Michelle Gavin, a senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign The crisis there was a foreign policy priority for President George W. Despite the American accusations of genocide, few officials have been willing to openly criticize the

  • Vietnam Succession Battle Heats Up After President’s Ouster

    Phuc — a familiar face to foreign investors who oversaw a booming economy as prime minister — was once It’s unclear to what extent the political shakeup may impact domestic and foreign policy. Vietnam Communist party chief to meet a US president at the White House, last year became the first foreign leader to pay an official visit to China after Xi secured a precedent-breaking third term in office, Foreign investment last year rose 13.5% last year to $22.4 billion.

  • Stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law

    If they believe in international law, countries such as the UK should act to uphold it. UN officials are right to say the GHF scheme is “engineered scarcity” that has made aid distribution In the UK, ministers say allegations of genocide are for courts to decide upon, while government lawyers As the former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk has said , if GHF were a genuine humanitarian project it

  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: UK must keep human rights in Turkey a priority ahead of presidential visit

    Responding to the news reports that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit the UK in the next few days, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director, said: “This visit is an opportunity for show the President that human rights and a thriving civil society in Turkey are a priority for the UK Amnesty is calling on the UK Government to develop a coherent strategy in response. www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur44/8200/2018/en/ (c) 2018 Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.ie/uk-must-keep-human-rights-turkey-priority-ahead-presidential-visit

  • Country Report: Hong Kong

    power to interpret what may constitute “secession”, “subversion”, “terrorism”, and “collusion with foreign Between June and December 2021, police raided the offices of Apple Daily and Stand News, two of the largest Apple Daily’s founder was charged with collusion with foreign forces.

  • Iran: crackdown on women defying dress code

    Dubbed the “Noor” (Light) campaign, Iranian officials say the operation is aimed at enforcing the country The United Nations Human Rights Office has expressed concern over the crackdown. policemen in uniform, are increasingly enforcing the hijab bill,” Jeremy Laurence, a spokesman for the office responsibility for Amini’s death  and rejected accusations from human rights organizations, witnesses and foreign

  • Across Myanmar, Denial of Ethnic Cleansing and Loathing of Rohingya

    “Go away, you foreigner! Go away, you kalar lover.” Aung San Suu Kyi’s office, emphasized that biscuits from the World Food Program, a United Nations agency Pe Myint this month gathered local journalists to discuss what he called “fabricated news” by foreign Even among officials who might otherwise champion human rights, frustration has been directed at foreign camp where thousands of Rohingya have been sequestered since the 2012 sectarian violence, according to foreign

  • US, EU lawmakers want pressure on Serbia to recognize Kosovo

    Bob Menendez, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his counterparts in Germany, the U.K Secretary of State Antony Blinken, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, highlights a series of incidents, including attacks on NATO peacekeepers Little progress has been made on improving ties since he took office as prime minister in 2021.

  • French Muslim school threatened with closure

    weekend, the prefect validated the decision, making the termination of the school's state contract official 2023 report, France's supreme audit institution qualified Qatar Charity as the association's "main foreign Since then, there have been no traces of further foreign donations, the report said. The office of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin declined to comment, but a source close to the minister The Education Minister's office did not respond to a request for comment. © 2023 ABC News

  • Country Report: Kazakhstan October 2021

    Empire took control of Kazakhstan in the 1800s, set up a colonial government, and made Russian the official Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has attracted over $30 billion in foreign investment uranium and metals on the Nazarbayev regime's improvement of human rights protection. · Western foreign Zhanaozen massacre and the 2020 attacks on the Dungan. · The Kazakh Famine of 1932 - 1933 should be officially

  • World Central Kitchen: Israel targeted staff in Gaza 'car by car'

    WCK workers from Australia, Canada, Poland, the UK and the US were killed as well as their Palestinian UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke to Mr Netanyahu on Tuesday. Mr Netanyahu, and that he expected a "full and proper explanation for how this has occurred" Polish Foreign

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