UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Women in Afghanistan are facing “gender apartheid” one year after the Taliban takeover of the country, a former Afghan parliamentarian has alleged. “Time clearly proves that the erosion of women’s rights has been one of the most notable aspects of the Taliban administration to date, and that ...
GENEVA (AA) – Afghanistan is facing a deepening human rights crisis under Taliban rule leading to authoritarianism, a UN report claims. In his first report to the Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett catalogs human rights abuses under the Taliban since it seized control of the country in [&...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A Pakistani court on Friday ordered the government to resolve the “missing persons” issue within two months. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and some of his cabinet members appeared before Chief Justice Athar Minallah of the Islamabad High Court, who was hearing identical petitions seeking the recovery of six missing peopl...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An Indian Muslim journalist was granted bail on Friday, two years after his arrest by the country’s northern state police, who charged him with conspiracy to incite riots. Siddique Kappan was given bail by the Indian Supreme Court. He was arrested by police in Uttar Pradesh state in 2020 while on […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Austrian diplomat Volker Turk as the next high commissioner for human rights. Guterres’ nomination of the veteran diplomat as the next UN rights chief was approved by the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Turk will succeed Michelle Bachelet of Chile, who serve...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip has caused five Palestinians to lose their lives this year, including three children, a local NGO said on Wednesday. In a statement, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said a cancer patient died on Tuesday after his repeated request for an exit permit for medical […]
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and injured 16 more people in a massive military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the deceased as Mohammad Musa Saabaneh, 29, according to the official Wafa news agency. The Israeli military [&hell...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. “Two young men were killed. Samer Khaled, 25, was killed by a bullet in the neck, and Yazan Afana, 26, was shot in the heart,” the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. It […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Bangladesh’s government is in “denial” about systematic abductions carried out by security forces, families of missing relatives said Tuesday, during a protest demanding a United Nations probe into enforced disappearances. Rights groups accuse security forces of unlawfully killing around 2,500 people ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – An international advocacy group in its latest report has accused the Indian authorities of using “draconian laws” against journalists and human rights defenders to silence their voices in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The report, titled “India Silencing Journalism & Human Rights in Kashmir”, ha...
