Activists call for review of Myanmar’s citizenship law
More than 1.2 million are stateless.
DR Congo: UN food relief agency warns of ‘Triangle of Death’
General view of Mushaba IDP camp in Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC.
Persons with albinism must not be treated as “ghosts”, UN experts stress
An albino woman in Tanzania who was brutally attacked due to rumors about their magical powers which...
Iraq: Parliament Report Alleges Officials Ordered Raid
A preliminary parliamentary committee report based in part on witness interviews and given to Human Rights Watch claims top Iraqi officials ordered a raid on a demonstrators’ camp on April 23, 2013, in Haweeja,
Bangladesh agrees on action plan to improve working conditions, International Labour Organization says
A female employee at a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh.
Jordan: End Free Speech Prosecution
Jordanian criminal justice authorities should immediately drop their three-year prosecution of two intellectuals and withdraw all charges against them. The charges, which include “disturbing relations with a foreign state” and “inciting racist strife...
Raids free enslaved migrants/refugees in Yemen
Migrants in Haradh, among the 100,000 arriving in Yemen every year.
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe condemns attack on Kosovo public broadcaster editor in chief
Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE media freedom representative, condemned today the attack on Mufail Limani, the editor in chief of the public broadcaster, Radio Television of...
Prospects for Rakhine reconciliation dim
A Rohingya village in October 2012.
SRI LANKA: On your knees ladies and gentlemen, on your knees!
Suggesting perhaps that the creative imagination of the cartoonist is catching up with the reality of Sri Lanka the Daily Mirror yesterday carried this cartoon as an illustration for its editorial entitled, A case for best legal brains.
