The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Geert Cappelaere, recently completed his first visit to Libya. On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Cappelaere made a statement warning that half a million children in Libya are in dire need of humanitarian assistance due to
Air raids on Raqqa conducted by the US-led coalition killed 29 civilians in the space of 24 hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has revealed. According to figures provided by the SOHR, this week’s deaths add to at least 523 other civilians who were killed since the campaign
In 2015, the Nepalese government passed legislation to allow citizens to identify as a third gender on the national passport, following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling in the country. Much like in Pakistan and India, Nepal is one of the South Asian countries that are allowing formal recognition for members
The attack befell on the night of Saturday, August 12, 2017, when a suicide bomber driving a motorcycle collided with a military truck in the southwestern city of Quetta in Pakistan. According to the Home Minister for Balochistan, Sarfraz Bugti, “there are around 15 casualties … and around 40 people
After three years of being held hostage as ISIS’s largest city conquest, Mosul has finally been liberated. The Iraqi forces rejoiced as they planted their national flag after nine months of brutal on-ground fighting and airstrikes. In July 2014 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first and only public appearance as
The resistance of the Mapuche peoples in Argentina and Chile has recently been amplified by the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado and the arrest of Facundo Jones Huala. Maldonado was allegedly arrested on August 1 during a road block protest in the Chubut province of southern Argentina. He and his fellow
In the midst of their Independence Day celebrations, Pakistan is dealing with the repercussions of another deadly attack, which is believed to have been carried out by ISIS. On Saturday, bomb explosions occurred in the city of Quetta, in Balochistan, that killed at least 15 people and injured 32 others. As
Officials in the U.S. state of Virginia have declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlottesville after the outbreak of violence between far-right groups and their counter-protesters, with at least one dead and many left injured. Police forces in Charlottesville have worked to disperse hundreds of protestors after
The Nepali government criminalized chhaupadi earlier this month, in an effort to end the ancient Hindu practice that forces women who menstruate to leave their homes and stay in small huts or cow sheds because they are considered to be impure while menstruating. This practice also banishes women after childbirth
At least thirty civilians, including six Red Cross volunteers, have died in the Central African Republic as a result of an outbreak of violence between local self-defence groups and members of the militant group, the Union for Peace in Central Africa. Fighting erupted in the town of Gambo, located 75
