BRUSSELS (AA): The EU has sent €2.5 million (around $2.7 million) in emergency support for regions in Myanmar and Bangladesh that are hosting Rohingya refugees after the devastating rainfall, the European Commission has announced. “Following cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, the (European) Commission has released €2.5 million in emergen...
JERUSALEM (AA): A ministers’ committee on legislative affairs is set to discuss on Sunday the functioning of human rights institutions in Israel. The bill, which was proposed by Ariel Kallner, a right-wing Knesset member, targets human rights institutions rejecting the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. “Next week my bill for a...
On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, numerous organizations and the United Nations (UN) came together to remember the historic event and emphasize the ongoing struggle faced by the Palestinian people. The Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the displacement and dispossession of hundreds of th...
UNITED NATIONS (AA): The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, warned of a “children’s crisis” in Afghanistan on Thursday with nearly 16 million children going to bed hungry. “They don’t have clean water to quench their thirst or blankets in which to sleep,” Fran Equiza, UNICEF Afghanistan representative, told...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): At least 15 residential buildings have been destroyed in Israel’s air offensive on the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry. “Around 940 housing units have also been damaged, of which 49 units have become uninhabitable,” Salameh Maarouf, head of the Government Media Office, told a press conference in Gaza Cit...
Teknaf, Bangladesh (AFP): A Rohingya refugee delegation arrived in Myanmar on Friday to tour new facilities built for the revival of a long-stalled plan to return the persecuted minority to their homeland. Bangladesh is home to about a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar that is now subject [&h...
Zawiyah, Libya (AFP): Libyans in the western city of Zawiya protested Thursday against militia groups they accuse of recruiting migrants into their ranks involved in alleged acts of torture, residents said. Zawiya, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, is a key departure point for migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranea...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has rejected a call to apologize and offer reparatory justice for victims of British slave trade and imperialism. In her question to the prime minister during a session at the House of Commons on Tuesday, the opposition Labour Party’s MP Bell Riberio-Addy said the premie...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – Migrants who risk their lives to arrive in the UK on small boats are “criminals,” British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in a televised interview on Wednesday as the government presses ahead with its crackdown on Channel crossings. Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, said in a speech on ...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has warned that it will no longer be able to feed 600,000 refugees in Chad in May unless it receives urgent international funding. The UN’s World Food Program said Chad was hosting the biggest refugee population in west and central Africa, with the numbers rising due to unrest in […]
