The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) has continued its brutal campaign in the southern Philippines with the confirmation of the beheading of tourist Robert Hall who had been held captive by the group until his death last week. The Canadian national was kidnapped from Samal Island in September 2015, along
The rising fear of being caught in a random shooting has made an exponential leap following the Orlando mass shooting at a gay nightclub that killed 49 and injured at least 53 people. The shooter’s ex- wife expressed the belief that he was mentally ill and that religion did not play a
In his 36th year as president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe confirmed in a speech that it was time for him to step down. On July 18th, 2016 Mugabe attended a celebration in Harare to mark the occasion of the 24th Children’s Parliament that was held in connection to the Day of
With the average amount of time for someone to be a refugee set at around 20 years, Sasha Chanoff, the founder of privately owned and funded Refuge Point, is looking to revolutionise not only the way we view refugees, but also the refugee protection system, and how it handles
The protection of human rights has been prominently featured on the international agenda since the end of World War II and the creation of the United Nations in 1945. Although crimes against humanity and war crimes characterised Cold War proxy conflicts and the humanitarian crises of the 1990’s, human rights
As has been widely reported, Donald Trump–the Republican Party’s nominee for president in the United States–is currently seeking to build a wall on the border between Mexico and the United States. He claims that immigrants are coming into America as ‘criminals’, thus having a negative yet crucial impact on the
A police force has been dispatched to guard a village in central Myanmar where religious tensions are running high after a Buddhist mob destroyed a mosque on Saturday, according to the local authorities. The most recent anti-Muslim violence erupted this week when an angry Buddhists mob destroyed a mosque in
Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, Al-Shabaab, has carried out a car bombing and gun attack at the Nasahablood Hotel, located at the KM4 road area in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. “They started with a suicide bomb and then stormed in,” Major Nur Farah told Reuters. Following the car explosion, a militant blew
