The Caribbean island nation continues to endure extreme insecurity, with widespread and incessant violence as rival gangs fight each other and the police for control of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The violence, which includes kidnapping for ransom, is playing out against a backdrop of political and economic crises as well as poverty and underdevelopment. Chantale Valcourt…
File photo A father had to carry his daughter’s body on a motorcycle after the government hospital in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh refused to provide an ambulance. According to Indian media, a citizen named Laxman Singh said that his 13-year-old daughter died due to illness, after which he asked the hospital administration to…
“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by…
