Following a report by Islam Khabar, Pakistan has been named as a global leader in cases of enforced disappearances, as hundreds continue to disappear every month. Since 2001, over 8,000 people have gone missing and as of July 2022, 2,219 cases remain unsolved. U.N. working group on Enforced or Involuntary
Between September 14th and 17th, as member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were preparing for its annual summit in Uzbekistan, what began as small-scale skirmishes along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border developed into a full-scale conflict with tanks, rocket artillery, and assault drones deployed. Amid conflicting information, the number of
Protests are spreading in Iran against the suspicious death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, after being arrested for not wearing a hijab properly. On 20th September, protests were held in various parts of Kurdistan, calling for an investigation into the mysterious death. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979,
The asylum disaster in Ter Apel, Netherlands, appeared to be at an all-time low this August, with hundreds of asylum seekers forced to sleep outside in mud for several nights in a row, with no sanitation facilities or even enough food and water. The night of August 23rd marked a
A couple months after their last encounter, the Egyptian and Qatari heads of government are set to meet again in Qatar this week. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will arrive in Doha on Tuesday, press agencies report, for a two-day visit in which he will entertain talks with Sheikh Tamim
The rising uncertainty between Taiwan and China over the last few months is awakening tension all over Asia, particularly in Japan, as the fate of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands is being decided. The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands are a cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan. The islands
Since the start of an outbreak this past April, 698 children have died from measles in Zimbabwe, according to the country’s health ministry, and there there has been a total of 6,291 cases recorded in as of 4 September 2022. The deaths have been attributed to unvaccinated children who did
