On Monday, officials said Bangladesh has shut the largest private school for Rohingya refugees. Since December, Bangladeshi authorities have been shutting down schools set up by the Rohingya, and late last week closed Kayaphuri School. The school was set up by Mohib Ullah, a prominent Rohingya community leader allegedly gunned down in Septembe...
On Monday, the Tunisian Human Rights League condemned military trials being held for civilians. Anadolu news agency reports that the group called for the acceleration of revising relevant laws, including the Terrorism Law. That legislation has resulted in journalists being prosecuted with impunity, as well as restrictions on human rights acti...
GENEVA – As the Rohingya refugee response in Bangladesh is approaching its fifth year, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has called for international support for the refugees escaping genocide in Myanmar and for their Bangladeshi hosts. The 2022 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis was launched on March 29, and humanitari...
VATICAN (AA) – Pope Francis met the leaders of Canadian indigenous peoples on Monday amid the scandal over residential schools in Canada. In a statement, Vatican’s press office said the pope separately met with two indigenous groups, 10 delegates representing the Metis people, and eight others for the Inuit. Pope Francis is set to welcom...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China said Monday that the West has applied “double standards” by catering to the human rights of people fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war but by ignoring those of refugees from countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. “I want to stress that the international community should not adopt a double standard [&hell...
Ukraine’s Muslim community estimates that 10,000 Muslims have died in the Russian aggression, so far. A Muslim group with historical ties to Ukraine spoke about the toll amid escalating violence. The Manitoba Islamic Association in Canada hosted a virtual discussion with President of the Muslim Council of Ukraine Sheikh Seyran Aryfov in Lviv L...
On Sunday women’s rights activists pledged to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban failed to reopen girls’ schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls flocked to classes Wednesday after the Taliban reopened schools for the first time since seizing power last August. But officials ordered the schools shut a...
Amnesty International is describing India’s repeated denial of bail to jailed Muslim activist Umar Khalid as a “big blow” to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Thirty-four year old Khalid, along with more than a dozen other Muslims, is accused of being part of a “larger conspiracy” that led to religious riots in New Delhi […]...
SANAA, Yemen – Around 190,000 migrants in war-torn Yemen are in “dire” need of assistance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned. “More than 4 million people who have fled their homes in search of safety, and some 190,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa, are in dire need of assistance” IOM said in […]
On Thursday, a human rights organization decried Israel’s policy of placing Palestinian children 14 years and younger under house arrest. The Beirut-based Palestinian Association for Human Rights, known as Shahed, said Israeli authorities continue to oppress Palestinians, especially residents of Jerusalem. Shahed said Israel’s policy of house...
