On August 25, the Saturday Mothers’ protest in Istanbul, Turkey was broken up by police officers with water cannons and tear gas. The Saturday Mothers have been holding weekly vigils since 1995 for those who “disappeared” in police custody according to Amnesty International. Images of previous events show relatives of
On the 27th August, 2018, anti-immigrantion protestors clashed with foreigners on the streets of Chemnitz in the eastern state of Saxony, just one day after the fatal stabbing of a man known only as Daniel H. The two men accused of the murder are believed to be of Syrian and
Over a year since the mass displacement of the Rohingya community in Rakhine state, Myanmar, the UN has released a report which calls for Myanmar’s senior military official to be prosecuted for genocide and war crimes. The report calls for the case of the Rohingya people to be referred to
As floodwaters begin to recede and rains have lessened, Kerala faces a significant cleanup from devastating floods that wreaked havoc across the region. Considered the southern state’s worst floods in almost a century, they resulted in the deaths of 400 people and the displacement of a further 1.8 million. The
In Italy, ahead of the Lazio football team’s first game on 18 August, non-official flyers were handed out urging women to avoid parts of Rome’s Stadio Olimpico. Handed out by Lazio ultra-fans, the flyers claimed that women were not welcome in the Curva Nord part of the stadium. Translated from
