Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Afghan boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 15 fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. These children work from sunup to sundown in difficult conditions to […]
Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Aged between 7-15, Afghan boys and girls fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. As their peers enjoy their childhood in other parts of the world, these children have […]
As the conflict in Ukraine rages on with Russia attacking various cities, including the capital Kyiv, top level WHO officials warned that oxygen supplies essential for patients were at a dangerously low level. WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Regional Director for Europe Hans Henri P. Kluge issued a joint statement p...
More than 1,000 protesters in Russia were arrested at rallies held against the country’s military intervention in Ukraine, a non-governmental organization said on Thursday. According to OVD-Info, the protesters were arrested in 51 Russian cities, including the capital Moscow and the second-largest city of Saint-Petersburg. Almost 700 people we...
Rohingya Muslims in The Hague, Netherlands, gathered Wednesday to protest Burma’s junta regime, as the International Court of Justice or ICJ resumed hearing the Rohingya genocide case. Protesters held banners and chanted slogans demanding justice. The top U.N. court on Monday resumed the hearing in the case against Burma in which the junta re...
Rohingya Muslims in The Hague, Netherlands, gathered on Wednesday in protest against Myanmar and the junta regime as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) resumed hearing of the Rohingya genocide case. The top UN court on Monday resumed the hearing of the case against Myanmar in The Hague where the junta regime represented the Southeast [&h...
A Palestinian human rights group has called on the international community to pressurize Israel to end its 15-year long blockade on the Gaza Strip. In a statement, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights appealed to the international actors to help provide the needed financial support for the reconstruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. It said aro...
India dispatched wheat to Afghanistan on Tuesday to help alleviate food shortages after Pakistan gave permission to allow the shipments across their shared border. Senior Indian government officials flagged off the first convoy of 50 trucks carrying 2,500 metric tons of wheat donated by India to Afghanistan at Attari in the northern state of P...
Dissenters and anti government opponents in Uganda are often picked up by state authorities and detained. Many are also subjected to torture while in detention. One of these people is John Mukasa, 29, who is being treated for injuries through torture while in detention in the central Uganda district of Wakiso. “I was released a […]
A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by a“charity train” from Turkey to Afghanistan was delivered to Kabul Monday. Medical aid packages were delivered to the Health Ministry of the interim Afghan administration in a ceremony. It was coordinated by Turkey’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and with the suppo...
