An official investigation is underway in Brazil following the alleged murder of up to 10 members of an uncontacted tribe. Prosecutor Pablo Luz de Beltrand told reporters that his team was contacted in August regarding a group of gold miners, who had allegedly murdered indigenous people in the Javari Valley. […]
Early Wednesday morning at least five children drowned in the Naf River following the sinking of a boat off the coast of Bangladesh, according to Bangladeshi authorities. The boat was carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees escaping persecution in Myanmar. The children are the latest casualties in the violence against the Rohingya […]
The Pentagon announced Wednesday, August 30, 2017, that there are an estimated 11,000 American troops in Afghanistan, 4,000 more than the approximate number of 8,400 under the Obama administration. The reporting comes a week after President Donald Trump announced his plan for an increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan. According […]
Multiple civilians have been killed in Raqqa, the capital city of ISIS-held Syria, after two consecutive days of airstrikes. In the past forty-eight hours, The United States carried out thirty strikes in Syria and Iraq. Twenty of those strikes targeted Raqqa and the surrounding area. The Syrian Observatory for Human […]
The “Unite the Right” riot in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12 has left many Americans shocked at the state of hate groups in America. For some, the image of swastikas, Nazi salutes, white power symbols, and torches seems like something from a different time, not 2017. For others, many of […]
In less than 24 hours, two separate groups of migrants and refugees were “deliberately drowned” by human smugglers off the coast of Yemen. The first incident occurred Wednesday, August 9, 2017, when the International Organization of Migration (IOM) found 29 bodies buried on the beach. According to Laurent de Boeck, […]
Early Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump revealed his support for new immigration legislation in the United States. Republican Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia co-sponsored the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy (RAISE) Act, which would cut legal immigration in half and favour skilled labourers […]
A new report released Wednesday July 26 by PEW Research Center shows that many Muslims feel targeted in the United States. The research was conducted from January 23 to May 2 over phone and included 1,001 respondents, all Muslim American adults. 75% of the respondents believe Muslims are discriminated against […]
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report Wednesday night detailing the struggles of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece. The report found that Greek authorities have failed to adequately protect refugee children by falsely registering them as adults. The HRW talked to twenty minors, some as young as fifteen, who […]
On Thursday night, Federal Judge Derrick K. Watson of Honolulu struck down the Trump administration’s latest guidelines for their infamous Muslim ban that kept grandparents from entering the United States. The guidelines come after the Supreme Court allowed for a limited reinstatement of the Muslim ban for people from Iran, […]
