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...
Lawyer and activist Ishrat Jahan was released from jail in the Indian capital New Delhi last week, after more than two years of imprisonment. She was hugged by her sister, and the duo burst into tears as relatives gathered around to welcome her home. Jahan said she was subjected to extra surveillance as well as […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 128 children have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine as of Thursday, according to Ukrainian officials. Also, more than 172 children have been injured in the conflict since it began late last month, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. Russian shelling damaged 566 educ...
