Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country’s past, including a violent anti-communist purge in the 1960s and the disappearance of student protesters in the late 1990s. More than half a million leftists were massacred across the Southeast Asian...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AA) – Since June 15, 2021, a total of 6,420 people have applied for compensation as relatives of 350 victims of the Srebrenica genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, the spokesman for the Netherlands Compensation Commission Potocari has said. Frank Neervoort noted that the commission paid 860 victims’ ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations has warned that millions in Syria will suffer if the Security Council fails to extend a resolution that allows humanitarian aid to be delivered to the rebel-held northwestern part of the country. The long-running aid operation that allows the use of the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – “2023 should be Rohingya Home Year,” read a placard held up by a refugee boy as nearly 1,000 Rohingya people in a refugee camp in the southern border district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on Saturday held a rally, demanding a peaceful and dignified return to Rakhine State of their home […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for a coordinated regional approach to protect thousands of Rohingya risking their lives on perilous sea voyages. “More than 2,400 Rohingya have sought to leave Bangladesh and Myanmar in 2022 alone, and I am deeply saddened that over 200 have reportedly lost their […]...
ANKARA (AA) – A total of 547 detainees have died in Syrian regime’s detention centers in 2022, according to a UK-based human rights group. “The Syrian regime has registered thousands of forcibly disappeared persons as dead, including prominent activists from the popular uprising against its rule,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) sai...
Baabda, Lebanon — AFP Nour is raising her four-month-old daughter in Lebanon’s most overpopulated women’s prison, struggling to get formula and nappies for her baby as the country’s economy lies in tatters. “I don’t have enough milk to breastfeed, and baby formula isn’t readily available,” said t...
New Delhi, India – AFP Ten years ago the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual violence in India. Jyoti Singh, 23, and a male friend boarded a bus on the evening of December 16, 2012. Savagely […]
PARIS (AA) – Under pressure from far-right, the French President is working on an immigration draft law which human rights groups said would raise fears. The first step before the official presentation of the new immigration bill, there have been long debates on France’s migration policy. The proposed law must combine “firmness and human...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Authorities in Tunisia have “not done enough” to protect women against domestic violence despite progressive legislation five years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. In 2017, a law was passed to tackle violence against women, regarded as a pioneering initiative. However, “insufficient” imp...
