WARSAW (AA) – The Polish Border Guard on Thursday publicly admitted the death of a Syrian man at a detention center for refugees in southwestern Poland, but almost a month after the man died. The refugee of Syrian origin, Mahmoud Ryad Albana, died on the night from March 16 to 17 after seven days in […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – More than 300 Afghans touched down at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Wednesday, bringing Canada closer to its goal of resettling 40,000 refugees from Taliban-run Afghanistan. The passengers on the flight, which arrived from Pakistan, were those who aided Canada in its Afghanistan mission, including families o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Following a sharp cut in the food assistance provided to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by the UN, the US has announced providing $23.8 million in humanitarian assistance for them. The fund will be channeled through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US Embassy in Dhaka stated on Monday. US...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A group of human rights organizations organized joint protest vigils Wednesday in several states across the US calling for the release of detainees at the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are eligible for transfer. The protests were held in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Cobleskill, New York and New...
ANKARA (AA) – The US Embassy in Libya on Monday voiced deep concern over alleged abuses against migrants in Libya and vowed to use its powers to hold perpetrators accountable. A report by a UN fact-finding mission cited evidence on crimes against humanity committed against migrants in Libya, including women being forced into sex slavery. [&hel...
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP): Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) rebuked feuding political parties on Tuesday for undermining democracy as the world’s fifth-most populous country battles an economic crisis. The fragile coalition government led by Shehbaz Sharif has been facing increasing pressure from opposition leader Imran Khan, Paki...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has rejected a US report on the country’s human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, and democracy, calling it one-sided and questioning American police’s excessive use of force and killings of ordinary citizens. Talking to reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday, Bangladesh Information and Broadcastin...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – An independent report into the Metropolitan Police (the Met) commissioned after Sarah Everard’s murder has concluded that Britain’s largest law-enforcement force is “broken” and should be abolished if it cannot change. The Met is “institutionally racist and misogynistic”, the...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – Nur Ankiz had just finished feeding her six-month-old baby and placed it on a small old mat with patches inside her camp made of tarpaulin sheets placed on four standing sticks, with her other children playing nearby with visible ash marks on their clothes, indicating the recent fire incident in […]...
WARSAW (AA) – Mizar, a Muslim cemetery, is less than a kilometer outside the small village of Bohoniki in northeastern Poland. You pass the last houses, turn left along a track lined with trees. Behind a wall, between the trees, tombstones with crescent-shaped monuments begin. The village is located 9 kilometers in a straight line [&hell...
