Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian rights groups called on Friday for emergency aid and shelters for migrants expelled from Sfax last week, as dozens of people protested in Tunis in support of their plight. Hundreds of migrants fled or were forced out of Tunisia’s second-largest city after racial tensions flared following the July 3 killing ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): A top US rights envoy in Bangladesh said Thursday that conditions remain unsafe for the return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, with Washington pledging further aid for the crisis. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanm...
TEL AVIV, Israel – In a rare move, Israeli prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a Jewish settler accused of vandalizing a mosque in the occupied West Bank. The vandalism was part of a series of anti-Palestinian riots perpetrated by hundreds of settlers last month. The U.S. recently called on Israel to take action against [&he...
Three Uyghur groups have received grants from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity for raising awareness about China’s actions against their community. The grants, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, were awarded to organizations working for Uyghur rights, education and the preservation of Uighur culture. Two of the groups, the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has expressed concern over food ration cuts for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Last month, the World Food Program (WFP) was forced to cut food rations for Rohingya refugees following a funding shortfall. Khan led a 10-member delegation to Bangladesh last week, where he ...
Ben Guerdane, Tunisia (AFP): More than 600 migrants forced out of Tunisia’s port of Sfax to the desert borderlands with Libya are being sheltered and given humanitarian aid, the Red Crescent said on Wednesday. However, smaller groups of people remain stranded near the frontiers with Algeria and Libya. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Sahara...
ANKARA (AA): Palestine has blasted the international community for its abject failure to mount a strong protest to Israel’s “ethnic cleansing” in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry accused Israel of seeking “to empty Jerusalem and its surroundings of the Palestinian presence.” On Tuesday, the Israeli police forcibly ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected Israel’s criticism of alleged human rights violations in his country, accusing the Zionist state of atrocities against Palestinians for decades. “There is no comparison of Israel’s brutalities and human rights violations against Palestinians. They (I...
Batabo, Syria (AFP): Syrians in the country’s last rebel enclave expressed alarm Wednesday after the United Nations Security Council failed to renew an aid delivery mechanism to the area, imperilling critical humanitarian assistance. The UN largely delivers relief to northwest Syria via neighbouring Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossin...
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP/AA): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey would not be able to ratify Sweden’s NATO candidacy until at least October because parliament was not in session. “There is a two-month parliament holiday. Of course, it will not be possible to end this holiday before October,” Erdogan told...
