Tokyo, Japan — AFP Any escalation of military activities will be “catastrophic” for people in the Gaza Strip, the UN high commissioner for refugees has said. More than 4,200 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip in relentless Israeli bombardments since October 7 when Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launche...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Amid tensions over Islamabad’s move to expel illegal migrants, Afghanistan has told Pakistan that “mishandling” Afghan refugees can “adversely affect” bilateral relations. Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Pakistan’s caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani in Tibet’s Xizang city on the sidelines ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
Karachi, Pakistan – – AFP The cow had been slaughtered and bags of rice purchased but young bride Wahida’s nuptials were cut short when her groom was arrested on their wedding day, one of hundreds caught in a recent crackdown on Afghans living in Pakistan. The 20-year-old now lives with her in-laws at the Afghan […]
Aswan, Egypt – AFP Thousands fleeing war in Sudan have taken refuge in the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile, where families are helping keep the tourism industry afloat far from the horrors they left behind. “We finally made it to Aswan,” said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Waheed Arian’s life has been shaped by the kindness and compassion of strangers. Now a successful doctor, he arrived in the UK as a 15-year-old refugee from Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from home in an unfamiliar land. When he needed a roof over his head, a refugee let Arian sleep on […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A high-level delegation from Bangladesh reached Myanmar on Monday in order to lead a Chinese-mediated meeting on Rohingya repatriation. A list of over 3,000 Rohingya under a pilot program has been sent to Myanmar to verify and a possible repatriation could begin under the mediation of China, according to Banglade...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Uprooted from their ancestral lands, a group of young Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh are trying to keep their heritage alive among their community’s children and teenagers. Mohammed Rezuwan Khan, 26, is one of those high school graduates, shunned from higher education in his native Rakhine, a state in western ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Experts have expressed concerns about the Bibby Stockholm ship, upon which the UK plans to house irregular migrants, asserting that it falls short of meeting fundamental humanitarian standards. Sureyya Sonmez Efe, a Turkish researcher with expertise in the legal statuses and rights of migrant workers and a faculty member ...
