A group of senators have strongly condemned the increasing use of solitary confinement for detained immigrants in the U.S., calling it a breach of international standards. They raised their concerns in a March 29 letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Patrick ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Oxfam have called for an immediate halt to U.S. arms transfers to Israel due to its violations of international humanitarian law. The organizations submitted a joint report to the U.S. government, citing instances of Israel’s misuse of U.S. weapons and obstruction of U.S.-funded humanitarian aid. Examples in...
Muslim asylum seekers in a New York shelter are struggling to observe Ramadan due to food being served that is not Halal. Abdoulaye Bah of Guinea, West Africa, says he has to choose between his health and religious observance at Queens’ Bellerose shelter. Advocates like Kabir Javaid have criticized city authorities’ lack of support. T...
Since the beginning of 2024, Israeli authorities have only facilitated less than 20% of humanitarian missions outrightly rejecting half of requests of food distribution Muslim Network TV Desk WASHINGTON – Refugee International, a global NGO, has blamed Israel for creating severe obstacles to humanitarian aid operations in Gaza. The inves...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has urged the international community to demand “progress” on the rights situation in the war-torn country still reeling from years of US-NATO occupation that ended with the Taliban taking power in August 2021. Responding to the question o...
BERLIN (AA) The number of attacks targeting asylum seekers and refugee centers almost doubled in 2023, according to figures recently made public. German police registered 2,378 attacks targeting refugees last year, up from 1,248 attacks recorded in 2022, according to the official figures by the Interior Ministry. At least 219 people were injur...
LONDON (AA) – The UK is facing pressure to cease arms exports to Tel Aviv following the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) order to Israel to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. The call comes in the wake of the top UN court’s judgment for provisional measures, highlighting a plausible risk of genocide in the […]
Global conference called for recall of 1975 UN Resolution that defined Zionism as a form of racism and urged for recognizing right to resistance By Iftikhar Gilani ISTANBUL, Türkiye – An international conference, featuring delegates from more than 50 countries gave a call to criminalize Zionism and equate it with racism. The diverse asse...
By Pascale Coissard Rogeret, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza My name is Pascale, and I have been working as an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza for just over three weeks. This week, I sat down with some of our patients at Al-Emirati Hospital in Rafah, where people receive postpartum [&h...
Basem Naim, former Minister of Health, has just come from the Gaza Strip and reports on life in the besieged territory By Iftikhar Gilani ISTANBUL, Türkiye – The former health minister of the Palestinian National Unity Government, Basem Naim, made shocking revelations about life in the besieged territory of Gaza, where Israel has launche...
