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...
LONDON (AA): There is no case that a significant number of Albanian nationals are at risk in their country and need to claim asylum in the UK, this was stated in a report recently released by the Home Affairs Committee. The cross-party committee of members of parliament, which is responsible for scrutinizing the work of […]
LONDON (AA): The British government’s controversial steps to tackle immigration show how British politicians use the immigration issue to win elections, according to interdisciplinary researchers. The UK government’s two latest attempts to stop small boat crossings via the English Channel – Illegal Migration Bill and the Rwanda Pla...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Thousands of persecuted Rohingya in Bangladesh held a rally to push for early repatriation to Myanmar. They raised banners which said: “Don’t Stop Repatriation. We Want to Go Back Home. We Don’t Want to Remain Refugees Anymore.” Muhammad Ayaz, 35, who lives at the Teknaf refugee camp in the countryR...
ISTANBUL (AA): An Australian judge delivered a landmark ruling last week that shook the country and the wider world. Federal Court Judge Anthony Besanko ruled against Ben Roberts-Smith, the country’s most decorated soldier, in his defamation case against three newspapers and journalists. Roberts-Smith had sued The Sydney Morning Herald, The Ag...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): Britain has ordered two more accommodation barges to house asylum-seekers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Monday. Sunak has pledged to stop crossings of the Channel from northern Europe made in small boats, after record numbers of people arrived last year. However, huge backlogs in the processing of appli...
