Day: May 19, 2017

French Gay Rights Groups File Complaint Against Chechnya

Three French gay rights groups filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Chechnya of a “wave of persecution” against homosexuals. Stop Homophobie, Mousse, and Comite Idaho France filed the complaint on the 17th of May, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, after a 17-year-old boy was allegedly

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UN Claims A Further 200,000 People Expected To Flee Mosul

The United Nations claimed on Thursday, May 18th that up to 200,000 civilians in Mosul, Iraq are expected to flee as Iraqi forces push into it’s Old City district to battle ISIS. In a press release from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Lise Grande, the Humanitarian

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