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COX ‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees stranded in camps in southern Bangladesh observed the seventh “Rohingya Genocide Day” on Sunday. The commemoration took place as new refugees, fleeing escalating violence in Myanmar, continued to arrive at the border. Seven years ago, the majority of the Rohingya community was...
GENEVA (AA) – Since atrocities began against the Rohingya Muslims of Burma seven years ago, no one has been held accountable for crimes they endured, and the impunity cycle must be broken, the head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Burma) has said. Nicholas Koumjian, head of IIMM, said that this week mark...
After the Israeli-American parents of a young man taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7 spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), the Uncommitted National Movement renewed its call for Palestinian voices to also be heard on the event’s main stage. The parents, Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin, recounted their son Hersh’s abductio...
ANKARA (AA) – Recent illegal settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has provoked the “largest forcible transfer” since October 2023, a major rights group said in a statement. “The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) calls on the international community to intervene and protect Palestinian communities after illegal set...
A Palestinian prisoner, identified as GV, has accused Israeli interrogators at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank of trying to drown him in toilet water. Released by the Palestine Prisoners’ Board and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Association, a report details GV’s harrowing account of torture and abuse. Captured on March 2 in Khan Younis in [...
As protests continued at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, humanitarian activists opposing U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, alongside American doctors who recently volunteered in the besieged region, urgently called on Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, to endorse an arms embargo on Isra...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh will maintain support for its immense Rohingya refugee population, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address. Yunus, 84, returned from Europe this month after a student-led revolution to take up the monumental task of steering democratic reforms in a coun...
United Nations, United States — AFP The famine in a displaced persons’ camp in war-torn Sudan is a “shameful stain” on the conscience of the international community, which failed to prevent it despite multiple warnings, the United Nations has said. Last week an international committee responsible for assessing food inse...
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new executive order targeting the homeless encampments has drawn sharp criticism from civil rights advocates and progressive commentators. The order was prompted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that seeks to push local authorities to dismantle encampments. Critics argue that Newsom’s approach fails to addres...
The Elders, an independent group of global leaders working for peace, justice, human rights, and a sustainable planet, was founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007 Muslim Network TV Desk ANKARA (MNTV) – The Elders, an independent group of prominent global leaders, have issued a powerful call to political figures worldwide, urging immediate acti...
