Another International Women’s Day has come and gone. Being so, it is appropriate to examine the status of refugee and asylum-seeker women, arguably the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups in the world. Of the estimated 60 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internationally displaced persons worldwide, over half are women and children. […]
Amnesty International heavily criticised Caribbean countries for human rights abuses, especially Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and The Bahamas in their Annual Report on the state of the World’s human rights that was released last week. In fact, countries all across the Americas were condemned for their treatment of undocumented migrants […]
President Trump’s infamous Muslim ban, the apogee of his anti-Islam campaign rhetoric has rightly attracted criticism and analysis in the three weeks since the executive order was signed on January 27. The order barred citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen from entry into the US for 90 […]
CNN’s Spanish-language service in Venezuela has been shut down after President Nicolás Maduro accused the broadcaster of “meddling in Venezuelan affairs.” The closure comes as US-Venezuela tension worsens, after the US Department of the Treasury ordered sanctions against Vice President Tareck El Aisammi, accusing him of drug trafficking and links […]
Ten people have been killed in the Ukraine as fighting enters its third day in the rebel-held frontline town of Avdiivka. Despite attempts to renew the 2015 Minsk Ceasefire, Eastern Ukraine has seen some of the worst fighting in months. The Ukrainian military attributes this outbreak of fighting to a […]
After losing the presidential election to Adama Barrow, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has left the country. Stepping down after 22 years in power, Jammeh left for an ECOWAS-arranged exile in Equatorial Guinea on January 21. President Barrow will return to the Gambia from Senegal, where he had been residing since […]
Mosul is the last major Iraqi city remaining under ISIS’ control. After coming under ISIS’s control in June 2014, the coalition, on October 17, launched an attack to liberate the strategically-located city. US military officials estimate that there are 5,000 ISIS fighters in Mosul, whereas ISIS supports say there are 7,000. Either […]
US Navy destroyer USS Mason was fired at off the coast of Yemen on 16 October, and returned fire, destroying three radar sites. USS Mason was in international waters at the time and was not hit. Houthi rebels support deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh. A Saudi-led, US-funded Arab coalition support […]
On Friday, Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on a peace agreement with FARC rebels that was voted down in a nationwide referendum on Sunday. A Nobel Prize Committee spokeswoman defended the choice, saying she “hoped it would give him strength […]
The passage of 9/11 Victims Compensation legislation through the US Congress risks the stability of the international legal order, experts have warned. Passing the Senate easily in May, Congress overrode President Obama’s veto to pass the Bill on September 29. The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) allows families […]
