WASHINGTON – Thousands of elderly Uyghurs have been detained in China’s Xinjiang region since 2016, according to Uyghur activists. They say that many of those detained have died in custody, often without their families being notified. Those who survived were subjected to forced labor, political indoctrination, and cultural oppress...
ANKARA (AA): The UN human rights chief on Friday urged Israel to end the violence in the occupied West Bank immediately. “Israel must urgently reset its policies and actions in the Occupied West Bank in line with international human rights standards, including protecting and respecting the right to life,” UN High Commissioner for H...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA): Human Rights Watch has slammed Spain and Morocco for failing to credibly investigate the Melilla border tragedy a year ago, claiming there has been “no justice” for those who lost their lives. “Both Spain and Morocco have exonerated their security forces following flawed or insufficient investigations into the violence at t...
WASHINGTON (AA): US Muslim Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib said on Tuesday that she will be boycotting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to Congress. “It’s shameful that Modi has been given a platform at our nation’s capital—his long history of human rights abuses, anti-democratic actions targeting Muslims & religious minorit...
BRUSSELS (AA): The EU expects Greece to conduct a “thorough and transparent” investigation into last week’s deadly migrant shipwreck near the shores of Kalamata. “We take note that the prosecutor has started an investigation on this incident. It is very important to ensure a thorough and transparent investigation,” Anitta Hipper, the European ...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The UN’s top expert on rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making “gender apartheid” an international crime, helping hold the Taliban accountable for the exclusion of women from education, progress and development. Shortly after ousting a foreign-backed government in August 2021, t...
ISTANBUL (AA): It has been more than a month since Shan Virk’s cousins Asadullah and Usama left their homes in Pakistan. The two were among the hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a boat that sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the latest in an unending series of human tragedies on the […]
ATHENS (AA): Amnesty International has demanded an urgent independent investigation into the drowning of at least 78 irregular migrants after their boat capsized off the coast of southwestern Greece earlier this week. “So many questions demand answers. Why was a search and rescue operation not launched much sooner? What caused the ship to caps...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA): Five freedom fighters were killed in an encounter with Indian security forces in northern Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday, police said. Additional Director General of Kashmir Police Vijay Kumar claimed that those killed, in a joint operation by the army and the police, in the Jumagund area of Kupwara, wer...
SYDNEY (AFP): An Australian lawmaker on Thursday detailed allegations that she had been sexually “assaulted” in parliament, stating the building was “not a safe place” for women to work. In a tearful Senate address, independent Lidia Thorpe said she had been subjected to “sexual comments”, cornered in a stairwell, “inappropri...
