Since 2016, Japan has received over 10,000 asylum applications a year, of which only a few dozen are accepted. Despite having a population of 126 million, the number of refugees it welcomed in 2019 was just 40, a tiny fraction of the number accepted by smaller countries such as Canada
On 1 June, Oliver Feeley-Sprague, Amnesty International U.K.’s Military, Security and Police Programme Director, warned there is a risk of U.K.-manufactured tear gas or rubber bullets being used against anti-racist protesters in ‘dangerous and highly inappropriate ways’. After the killing of George Floyd in the U.S., thousands of protesters have
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that Yemen faces a severe lack of funding for its humanitarian response to its ongoing war, as well as for COVID-19, putting millions of lives at major risk. After an online “pledging event” hosted by the UN last Tuesday, only $1.35 billion was raised,
India and Australia have progressed interstate relations after signing a bundle of military agreements through virtual summit on Thursday. Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Scott Morrison employed two bilateral pacts for the “deepening of the defense relationship” between the nations as tensions increase in the Indo-Pacific region. One of the
On June 4th, The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights released a scathing report on the human rights violations present in the Philippines’ war on drugs. The report called for an immediate and independent domestic investigation into widespread allegations of unlawful civilian killings and severe violations of international human rights
President Donald Trump announced on May 30th that he will be postponing the G-7 summit, an annual gathering of the world’s most economically advanced countries. The meeting, which currently includes the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, was originally planned for June, but will now
