The political crisis that started in Nicaragua since the mid of April in 2018 has raised great concern among its citizens as well as national and international authorities. Everything had started as a student protest in Managua against the Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has now become a violent civil conflict.
Brazil has reopened its northern border to Venezuelan refugees after briefly blocking the frontier earlier in the week. The Supreme Court overruled a decision made by a federal court in the state of Roraima to temporarily close the border in an attempt to contain the influx of migrants. In Supreme
Robert Mugabe was Zimbabwe’s head of state for thirty-seven years, running a regime of violence and terror. His forced resignation from leadership last year was a shock both on a domestic and global level, as Mugabe had dominated the political scene for so long. Although Mugabe’s removal from power was
The death toll of Myanmar’s latest radical weather has risen to twelve in the wake of the monsoon season that is ravaging South-East Asia. The monsoon rains and flooding has displaced up to 148,386 people in Myanmar, who are presently taking shelter within 327 temporary camps set up to aid
Palestine’s first aquarium opened on July 22. The aquarium is housed in an enormous building built to look like a ship, which rises out of Al Bireh’s bustling center in the occupied West Bank. Al Jazeera reports a serene interior—“dimly lit narrow corridors, transparent tanks filled with colorful fish.” Nearly
The U.S. is ready to face direct negotiations with the Taliban in an effort to end the 17-year long war in Afghanistan. These recently increased diplomatic efforts to seek some form of negotiations follow the scenes of the recent three-day ceasefire between the Afghan government and the Taliban following the
An attempt to count the dead resulted in death threats last week. The Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) closed its Managuan office on August 6 after staff members received death threats by phone. ANDPH has been committed to identifying those killed in over three months of anti-government protests in Nicaragua.
Around 4 millions Bengalis – a linguistic minority in the north-eastern state of Assam – risk being stripped of their Indian citizenship, leaving their freedom in jeopardy. The Indian government are revising the National Register of Citizens, or NRC in order to “root out” hordes of illegal migrants from Bangladesh,
On the 5th of August, 5 years after the civil war began, South Sudanese rivals President Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have finally struck a peace deal. The South Sudanese Civil War has killed more than 50 000 people and displaced four million since 2013. Half of these individuals
Former Timor-Leste president Jose Ramos-Horta has called upon the Australian government to drop the prosecution against former Australian Secret Intelligence Services (ASIS) Agent, Witness K, and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery. Ramos-Horta joins a chorus of human rights organizations and activists to condemn the case, including Human Rights Watch and the
Russia confirmed on Saturday that it sent a proposal, through a closely guarded communications channel to America’s top general, suggesting the two antagonists cooperate to rebuild Syria. Particularly focused on in the proposal was the repatriation of refugees to the war-torn country as part of this rebuilding process. Valery Gerasimov,
A single tweet has intensified the diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Canada. Last week, Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on Twitter that it was “gravely concerned” about the detention of civil and women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland publically acknowledged that “Canada will
Since violent political protests erupted in Nicaragua earlier this year, some 23,000 nationals have sought asylum in neighbouring Costa Rica. According to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, Costa Rica is receiving 200 refugee applications each day from fleeing Nicaraguans, however the actual number arriving could be much greater. UNHCR spokesperson,
The Cambodian people’s party (CPP) of Cambodia has declared victory of it’s candidate Hun Sen, even though the results have not been fully counted, according to the Washington Post. The election is described to be “unfair” and the win was predicted because of the lack of an opposition party, according
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reiterated its call for the international community to seek solutions to the causes that force people into states of displacement. The UNHCR’s Global Trends report for 2017, released in June, affirmed the total number of displaced people around the world continued
Despite ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and enshrining freedom of religion in article 36 of the Chinese constitution, reports submitted to a UN human rights panel on August 10th demonstrate that freedom is anything but guaranteed by the Chinese government for
