In a historic move that could benefit the lives of more than one million migrants living in Colombia, President Iván Duque has announced that the country will give temporary legal status to the over 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees currently residing in Colombia. Provided they register with the Colombian
Five people have been sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, while a sixth has been sentenced to life in prison. All six men were members of armed group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militant organization operating in Bangladesh. The group has been
It has been almost seven years since the well-publicized abduction of 276 schoolgirls from their dormitories in the town of Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. Following reports that a number of the girls who were still missing have managed to escape, we are reminded of a tragedy that, in a country plagued
A Thai woman has been sentenced to more than 43 years in prison for criticizing Thailand’s monarchy, the longest sentence ever imposed for violating the country’s lèse-majesté law. According to Amnesty International, the 65-year old woman, Anchan Preelert, pled guilty to 29 separate counts of “insulting the monarchy,” after sharing
At least 22 civilians were killed during a raid on the Mwenda village of the Beni territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, January 4th. According to local officials and UN peacekeepers, the attack was perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group that
A missile attack on Aden International Airport left over 25 people dead and hundreds more injured, following a series of explosions targeting Yemeni cabinet ministers. The December 30th attack occurred shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying the newly formed government cabinet, who were all safe. While there has
A report released by an ombudsman on December 17th, has revealed that the lockdown of nine public housing towers in the Australian state of Victoria this summer breached human rights laws. The lockdown, which took effect suddenly on July 4th, left more than 3,000 residents confined to their apartments without
At least 30 journalists were murdered around the world in 2020 as a result of their work, more than double the number from the previous year. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 21 of those killed had been targeted in direct retaliation for their work, while others were
Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was shot and killed in an ambush on Friday, November 27th in the Damavand region of Iran. According to Iranian state media, Fakhrizadeh was attacked while travelling by car on a rural road in Absard, a suburb situated about 70 km east of the
