DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, on Tuesday visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to assess the conditions of the persecuted people in the crammed settlement where they have been living for five years. “The visit aims to know how Rohingya are living in the camps and […]...
RAMALLAH (AA) – More than 100 days after Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered in Jenin, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah to unveil a street named after the Palestinian veteran journalist. The street is on the way that Abu Akleh used to travel daily to get to work at the Al-Jazeera network office in Ramallah […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the release of all Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails. “We must continue our demand for addressing the Palestinian refugee issue and the release of all the brave detainees,” Abbas said at an inauguration ceremony for two charitable projects in the W...
ANKARA (AA) – Nine EU countries on Friday expressed their concern over Thursday’s Israeli raids on the Palestinian NGOs. In a joint statement, foreign ministries of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden said: “A free and strong civil society is indispensable for promoting democratic values a...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The UN high commissioner for human rights expressed deep concern Wednesday over allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture in police custody and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. Michelle Bachelet, the first UN rights chief to visit Bangladesh, told journalists at a press conference in the capital Dhaka,...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees have urged visiting UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to create a conducive environment in Myanmar for the sustainable repatriation of the persecuted minority to their home country. Bachelet’s visit marked the first time a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has visited Bangladesh ...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Human rights groups and Muslim representatives expressed outrage on Tuesday over the release of 11 men serving life sentences for gang rape and murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots, which killed around 2000 people, the majority of whom were Muslims. The 11 convicts in the case of gang rape survivor Bilkis […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The UN human rights chief arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday on a 4-day official visit to assess the state of human rights in the South Asian nation and monitor the plight of the persecuted Rohingya community. Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen received Michelle Bachelet at the Dhaka airport. This is...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday called for ending Israeli “crimes” in the occupied territories. The call came after an Israeli court ordered the demolition of a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The school is in Area C in West Bank, which is under Israel’s full […...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A 10-year-old Palestinian girl died on Thursday of her injuries that she suffered in an Israeli offensive on the blockaded Gaza Strip last week, the Palestinian Red Crescent said. “Our crews are working to transport the body of Lian Al-Shaer after she died of wounds she sustained during the recent aggression on […...
