San Diego, Jul 11 (AP/UNB) — Lugging little backpacks, smiling immigrant children were scooped up into their parents’ arms Tuesday as the Trump administration scrambled to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite dozens of youngsters forcibly separated from their families…
Nava Thakuria Guwahati, July 9 – We finished the first half of 2018 with the shocking news that broke from America, one of the professed liberal spaces for journalists in a democracy on Earth. A gunman stormed into the newsroom…
Myanmar authorities should release two Reuters journalists detained for investigating a military massacre of Rohingya Muslims and drop the case against them, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 2, 2018, a Yangon court will hear final arguments on whether…
Ethiopia’s Regional Special Police Tortured, Beat Detainees Audrey Wabwire, Felix Horne In the Somali region of Ethiopia, it seems like everyone knows someone who was locked up in the dreaded Jail Ogaden, but no one wants to speak about the…
By Kristen Gelineau Ukhiya, Bangladesh (AP) — Tucked away in the shadows of her family’s bamboo shelter, the girl hid from the world. She was 13, and she was petrified. Two months earlier, soldiers had broken into her home back…
The German Embassy Dhaka on Wednesday said it has “with great concern” followed the brutal attacks on peaceful protesters during the last few days.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled last year’s brutal military crackdown in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar. Hundreds of villages were burnt to the ground, and there were widespread rape and murder.
Israeli forces’ repeated use of lethal force in the Gaza Strip since March 30, 2018, against Palestinian demonstrators who posed no imminent threat to life may amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces have killed more…
In the pre-9/11 period, there was a Development Aid System (DAS) of transferring capital from rich to poor countries to encourage economic and social transformation. It was designed to take capital to labour. Its effect was to retain labour in…
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer arrived here on Saturday afternoon to observe ICRC’s work in Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
By Pablo Alabarces Buenos Aires, Jun 29, 2018 (IPS) – Football tells us a great deal about identity. Even a budding sports journalist knows that. And it has come to be a meeting point and even an advertising theme. But…
Dhaka, Jun 29 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee arrived here on Friday to meet Rohingyas in various locations of Cox’s Bazar. Filippo…
United Nations, Jun 27 (AP/UNB) — Amnesty International released a report Wednesday that details new evidence of atrocities inflicted on Myanmar’s Rohingya population and names 13 top military commanders the human rights group says should be prosecuted for crimes against…
Submitted by Nicholas Oakeshott ; co-authors: Jonathan Marskell, Emily Weedon Chapman, Marie Benihirwe Fardowsa, a 20-year old Somali refugee in Uganda, knows the vital importance of identity documents to refugees. She and her family were forced to flee her homeland…
Amid authoritarian and illiberal forces buffeting social democracies, it is helpful to renew appreciation for their political architectures, especially the central role developed over a century and a half for the principle of proportional representation (PR). Its absence is one…
President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.
Turkey, Bangladesh and Uganda alone received over half of all new refugees last year. Never before has the world registered a larger number of people displaced by war and persecution.
US President Donald Trump has bowed to public pressure and signed an executive order promising to “keep families together” in migrant detentions. Mr Trump reversed his own policy amid international fury over the separation of undocumented parents and children. He…
Washington, Jun 20 (AP/UNB) — The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” It was the latest withdrawal by…
The US has pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), calling it a “cesspool of political bias”. The “hypocritical and self-serving” body “makes a mockery of human rights”, said US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley. Ms…
Speakers at a press conference on Tuesday demanded quick repatriation of Rohingya Refugees with human dignity and rights on the eve of the World Refugee Day, which will be observed across the country on Wednesday.
An audio recording in which migrant children in the US can be heard crying for their parents has been released as US President Donald Trump remains defiant over his immigration policy.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has reiterated that no Rohingya repatriation should take place in the absence of sustained human rights monitoring on the ground, in the areas concerned.
US First Lady Melania Trump has expressed concern over a controversial policy that separates families who illegally enter the country. Mrs Trump “hates to see children separated from their families” and wants to see “successful immigration reform”, her spokeswoman said.…
Last week, the European People’s Party (EPP) had a chance to stand up for its values and those of the European Union. But instead, it ducked the issue.
Dhaka, June 14 – The Committee to Protect Journalists will honour journalists from Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela and Vietnam with its 2018 International Press Freedom Awards.
By Richard Falk Ten days ago, while attending the opening ceremony of a conference in Vienna commemorating the 25thanniversary of the Vienna Declaration of Human Rights, I was struck by the simple words and sad demeanor of Nadia Murad, a…
Two Reuters reporters accused in Myanmar of possessing secret documents were subjected to sleep deprivation and asked if they were “spies” during police interrogations, their lawyers suggested during questions posed to a police witness on Monday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for redoubling efforts to address the root causes of conflict and advance work for the Sustainable Development Goals including by promoting inclusive societies.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights held the State of Colombia accountable for the ongoing impunity for murder of a journalist Miami (Washington DC), June 8, 2018 – The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights celebrate…