A newly leaked document from Xinjiang has provided information on why Uighur Muslims have been detained at internment camps by the Chinese government. The document has also revealed how the authorities are using high-tech surveillance to keep track of the identities, locations, and habits of individual Uighur Muslims. It is
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority, on the 3rd December, calling for the closure of mass detention camps in the north-western region of Xinjiang. The Uighur bill requires the president ‘to
Around 200 Nigerians have left South Africa amid fears of xenophobic violence. There has recently been a wave of violent attacks on foreign people, their businesses and property. Riots started in early September, where several stores owned by immigrants were targeted across Johannesburg, Pretoria and surrounding areas. At least 10
On Thursday, Venezuela reportedly released 22 prisoners, including high-profile judge Maria Afiuni, journalist Braulio Jatar, and twenty students, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and her office. The news came after the U.N. Human Rights Council held a debate on Bachelet’s report after a visit
Over 200 people have been killed and 450 hurt in multiple explosions which have taken place at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. The attacks took place during Easter services at three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo’s Kochchikade. Eight blasts in total were reported, with three hotels in the
Student rallies and other protests are being held in Algeria against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plans to run for a fifth term in office. The protests have been one of the nation’s largest displays of public dissent since its war of independence from France in 1962, which had over 100,000 people
At least 45 tea workers have died after drinking toxic alcohol in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, while more than 200 are currently being treated in hospital. The fatalities were reported on Sunday, just days after the deaths of approximately 100 other people in the states of Uttar Pradesh
Government officials in Haiti are set to lose their perks, under emergency economic and anti-corruption measures announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Jean-Henry Ceant. This is in response to deadly protests which have been occurring – corruption being the main cause of discontent – where protesters want President Jovenel Moise
Bangladesh has proposed to create a ‘safe zone’ in Myanmar’s Rakhine state for Rohingya refugees, where they fled state persecution in late 2017. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called on Russia, China and India to help the country tackle the Rohingya refugee crisis. In an interview with Anadolu News
A 37-year-old woman has become the first person in the U.K. to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM), after mutilating her three-year-old daughter during the summer of 2017. The defendant, born in Uganda and living in the UK for a number of years, has denied FGM and an
On Tuesday evening, a woman in the western Nepal Bajura district, along with her two sons, suffocated to death in a “menstrual hut.” Amba Bohara, 35, was forced to sleep in a windowless mud and stone hut during her period. Bohara and her two sons, aged 12 and 9, had
Police deployed tear gas and water cannons as clashes involving 5,500 protesters broke out in Brussels on Sunday. A minority of the demonstrators became violent when they were asked to leave, and began throwing paving stones, street furniture and firecrackers at security forces. Riot police closed off wide streets in
Attempts to incorporate a key study on the impacts of a global temperature rise of 1.5C into global climate talks have failed. The report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was launched in Incheon in South Korea in October and won praise from politicians all over the world.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have agreed to halt new trade tariffs for 90 days to allow for continued talks over recent trade disputes. The breakthrough came after a post-G20 summit meeting. Trump has agreed not to boost tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods from 10%
Last week, on the 17th of November, American citizen John Allen Chau was killed by an endangered tribe after he visited North Sentinel Island. India-owned North Sentinel lies in the Indian Ocean and is inhabited by the Sentinelese, who have lived in complete isolation for around 60,000 years. Chau was on
For the very first time, two senior leaders of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. Deputy leader Nuon Chea, 92, and Head of State Khieu Samphan, 87, have been given life sentences on top of the life sentences they are already serving for crimes
South Korea’s Supreme Court has ordered a Japanese steelmaker to compensate the victims of forced labour during Japan’s wartime control of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945. The court ordered the company, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSM) to pay 100 million won ($88,000) in compensation to each
On Tuesday, October 9, the Tunisian parliament passed the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Act, which is the first law of its kind in Tunisia, and not only defines but also criminalizes all forms of racial discrimination due to skin colour, sex and creed. A draft law had been
