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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...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) official has called for continued international support for Rohingya refugees and their host country Bangladesh. UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly T. Clements and UNHCR Director for Asia and the Pacific Indrika Ratwatte undertook a visit to Bangladesh from Feb. 13-18, whic...
The Hague – AFP: Myanmar hit out Monday at a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims, urging the UN’s highest court to drop the claim on legal grounds. Banjul dragged Myanmar before the International Court of Justice in 2019, accusing the predominantly Buddhist Myanmar of genocide ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul HOKUL on Friday unveiled a plan to make the city’s subway system safer. Adams, a former New York City transit police officer, announced the plan to remove homeless and mentally ill people from the subway system. The move is in response to a […]
A 51-year-old Kashmiri widow tailors a traditional long loose shirt and baggy trousers for a customer. Shaheena Akhter keeps busy with tailoring at her small home in Srinagar SRI NAGAR, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Akhter lives alone in the congested poor neighborhood of Khwaja Bazar. She has developed many health problems since...
A U.K.-based initiative to raise awareness about the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem has gone global. For the second year in a row, more than 50 countries are set to take part in Aqsa Week 2022, organizers said. The event, which runs from Feb. 24 to March 2, is being organized by the British-based Friends of […]
