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
Several human rights organizations and experts, Amnesty International and the U.N. among them, have demanded that the Singaporean government put an end to the crush of executions carried out this year. “We call on governments, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the International Narcotics Board to increase
Months into the Ukraine-Russia conflict and millions of Ukrainians have been displaced and scattered on European territory. European nations have dealt with refugee “crises” for decades, but it has become increasingly clear that this flow is different. Critics have been pointing out racially biased and discriminatory refugee policies from European
A study from combined institutions like the Georgia Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University reveals evidence once again that technology is not, per definition, unbiased. Machines have been replacing human hands and minds since the Industrialization era and have now infiltrated all layers of modern societies. The industry’s skyrocketing
The Group of Seven’s (G7) pledge to collectively stand up against the world’s hunger crisis, which has been progressively worse, is simply not sufficient and fails to set things into motion, Oxfam International states in late June. “Faced with the worst hunger crisis in a generation, the G7 have simply
June 24th marks a dark day for the people in the United States who have fought hard to prevent their constitutional right to safe and legal abortions from being overturned. Almost 50 years ago, Roe v. Wade commemorated a milestone for the women’s movement in respect of bodily autonomy, liberty,
The Dutch Minister of Defence, Kajsa Ollongren, has issued an official apology for the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica directly to the relatives of the victims for the first time since the atrocity took place. Last month, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte had also issued an official apology, but to the
Sunday, June 5, was a dark day for worshippers of the St. Francis Catholic Church in the Southern Nigerian city of Owo, where a brutal church shooting cost the lives of an estimated 50 people. The attack has not yet been officially claimed, though the Nigerian government supposedly suspects Islamic
The Nikkei Asia has reported last week cases of Kashmiri women being enticed into modern-day slavery in the United Arab Emirates. The women, seeking opportunities outside the borders of a country that has been troubled by decades of conflict, travel to Dubai under the assumption that they got offered steady,
Several British news outlets recently reported undocumented asylum seekers to have attempted suicide or struggle with suicidal thoughts after a new refugee policy puts them at risk of being relocated to Rwanda. The UK government closed the deal with Rwanda back in April, which establishes that thousands of illegal immigrants
