Day: April 14, 2022

Afgan Schools Turn Away Female Students Due to Taliban Rule

The morning of March 23rd, hundreds of tearful female students filled the streets as they were refused entry to their schools. The Taliban’s Ministry of Education made the announcement late the night before to bar all female students from secondary and high school education, until a plan could be formed

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Myanmar: UN Rights Body Should Advance Justice

Myanmar’s military has terrorized the country with systematic and widespread human rights violations and abuses, since staging a coup in February 2021. The military junta, also called Tatmadaw, has killed some 1,700 people, displaced half a million people, and hunger levels are growing. This humanitarian crisis must be addressed by

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Zambian President’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Arrests Justice Minister

On March 21st, Zambia’s Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it had arrested political leader Given Lubinda. When Hakainde Hichilema, the current president of Zambia, was elected in 2021, he promised to fight the country’s pervasive corruption and recover state assets that were allegedly stolen under the previous administration. Since then, numerous

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