Israeli forces killed four Palestinians on Thursday, including an alleged attacker and Palestinian fighter, officials said. Violence flared across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, authorities said. They were 14-year-old Mohammed...
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday called for a moratorium on forced returns of refugees and migrants to Burma. His comments follow news that Malaysia deported two Burmese nationals who sought protection through the U.N. refugee agency on Oct. 6. More than 100 other nationals from Burma, some of whom had serious protection [&hel...
Heavy shelling from Burma along the Bandarban border district of Bangladesh has forced hundreds of families to flee for safety. Bullets from Burma again landed inside Bangladesh’s Lemuchhari and Bahirmath areas Saturday violating the border, according to fleeing locals. The shelling occurred in a roughly 12-mile area near the border in Burmese...
A Boston-based research team on Friday released a study showing a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, focuses on food insufficiency. Researchers found ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in household food insufficiency by early July 2022.” The g...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a senior Hamas leader in an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank, according to his son. No reason was provided for Al-Rajoub’s detention. The Hamas leader was released by Israeli forces in January after eight months in administrative detention. The policy of administrative det...
The use of torture is prohibited by the United Nations convention that also opposes other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment. Yet, many countries still employ methods of torture, including beatings, waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation and solitary confinement. To increase global awareness of the problem, the U.N. designat...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed a hate crime investigation into anti-Asian slurs spray-painted onto a San Leandro, California home last weekend. On Saturday, police responded to a report of vandalism at 9 p.m. “A racial epithet within an anti-Asian message” was scrawled on a realtor sign marketing the property for sale. On ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of Rohingya at refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar held large rallies on Sunday, calling on the international community to make arrangements for their safe return to Myanmar, along with being granted citizenship rights. Ignoring the rain, Rohingya refugees gathered in the ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the “brutal and arbitrary repression” of Uyghurs and Turkic people in China’s Xinjiang region, and called on Beijing to release those detained. In a resolution adopted by show of hands, EU lawmakers condemned “in the strongest possible terms the fact that the Uyghur community ...
Muna Saleh says besides her skills, qualifications and expertise, her “professionalism” is evaluated by one more factor — her hijab. For observant Canadian Muslim women, wearing hijab is a religious obligation and a personal religious decision. But many Muslim women in the country a are facing undue professional consequences for choosing to we...
