On one hand, the Modi government is committing human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir and on the other hand, it is holding the G20 meeting in Srinagar to mislead the world. Fernand de Vernes, the UN Special Representative on Minority Issues, has warned that human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir have increased dramatically since 2019….
Increasingly grim accident statistics provided the impetus for action, including two bus crashes in Senegal that claimed 62 lives in January. In nearby Côte d’Ivoire, the daily number of fatal road accidents has risen to 46, from just 12 in 2012. In the world’s region most affected by road crashes, sub-Saharan Africa’s fatality rate is…
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Washington: The Secretary General of the United Nations has taken note of the protests and riots that started as a result of the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and has called on all parties to refrain from acts of violence. In his statement, the Secretary General urged the authorities to adopt appropriate procedures…
Taliban arrested human rights activists including 4 women; Photo: File New York: A United Nations report claims that since the Taliban imposed a ban on women working in NGOs, they have begun detaining female employees for violations. According to the World News Agency, the United Nations report said that the Taliban detained some Afghan women…
“In this community, many children don’t go to school or pre-school, because they don’t have food. Many others can’t afford the school fees. I can’t afford to send my own children to pre-school because my husband lost his job. Some children suffer from a lack of parental love. We have seen neglected children left to…
“It is time to end the violence,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at the high-level meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region, held in Bujumbura, Burundi. Since the resurgence of the M23 armed group in DRC in 2021,…
Mr. Kawago is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of WAGA, a company which produces solar lamps, power banks and mini-power walls, to help rural dwellers access off-grid clean and affordable energy for lighting and power solutions, and urban dwellers to cope with power cuts. Currently, Mr. Kawago is working with Tanzanian radio station Wasafi…
The country has 6.2 million internally displaced people, while more than 1.3 million have become refugees. UNHCR said that Goma, the capital of eastern DRC’s North Kivu province, hosts over 560,000 displaced people in and around the city. Many live in spontaneous sites on the side of the road, in dire conditions, despite the efforts of…
“I spent the night in fear, unable to go out of my house, as people were being killed everywhere,” she said, worrying about how she would protect her five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. Panicked by the sounds of shooting and warplanes flying overhead, she tried calling her husband at work, only to learn from friends…
