BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the “brutal and arbitrary repression” of Uyghurs and Turkic people in China’s Xinjiang region, and called on Beijing to release those detained. In a resolution adopted by show of hands, EU lawmakers condemned “in the strongest possible terms the fact that the Uyghur community ...
BELGRADE, Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked White Ribbon Day in honor of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the western town of Prijedor in 1992. On May 31, 1992, the Serbian administration in Prijedor ordered the non-Serb population to wear white stripes on their arms when they left their houses- an order followed by […]
JERUSALEM/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an armor-piercing projectile fired directly at her head by an Israeli sniper, Palestinian attorney general Akram Al-Khatib has said. Al-Khatib shared the details based on the Public Prosecution’s report about the killing of the Al Jazeera journali...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Human rights defenders in Tanzania have said that they feel relieved by the measures taken by the first female President Samia Suluhu Hassan like lifting the ban on 30 media outlets, and beginning a review of repressive laws. Hassan, who took over last year in March after the death of […]
Sanliurfa, Turkey- AFP Hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, which shares a long border with Syria. Civil war in Syria is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011. A new wave of economic ...
ISTANBUL – China’s foreign minister in a meeting with UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called for refraining from “politicizing human rights.” Wang Yi met with the visiting UN high commissioner for human rights in Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong. Bachelet is on a week-long visit from May 23-28 to China where sh...
On Tuesday, U.S. officials said they are “appalled” by “jarring” photographic evidence of China’s alleged rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs. State Department spokesman Ned Price said new reports add to “an already damning body of evidence” documenting the Chinese government’s atrocities in Xinjiang. Price said Chinese authorities continue ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has said it is “appalled” by “jarring” photographic evidence of China’s widespread rights abuses against its minority Muslim Uyghur population. “This new reporting further adds to an already damning body of evidence of the PRC’s atrocities in Xinjiang,” State Depart...
Bambilor, Senegal – AFP In a serene studio filled with birdsong, Omar Ba takes off his shoes and gets down on his hands and knees. Then the renowned Senegalese artist begins to paint a five-metre-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black. This is how Ba, a rising star in the world of contemporary African […]
GENEVA – The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution has exceeded 100 million for the first time, propelled by the wars and conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar, the Sahel and Horn of Africa as well as Ukraine, the UN refugee agency has said. “One hundred million is a […]
