Myanmar: Five years since Rohingya mass exodus, UNHCR urges solutions
This week marks five years since more than 700,000 ethnic Rohingya fled military persecution from Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR,...
Israel ramps up attacks on human rights defenders
Extra-judicial killings, illegal land grabbing and an apartheid system of rule continues as the order of events in occupied Palestine. Israel fell under heavy...
Is U.S.-European strategy for Africa an effort to revisit the Cold War?
If history, as the saying goes, is best qualified to reward all research then the past and present history of U.S. and European global...
Homeless population exploding in Canadian cities
Canadian officials have requested the government’s help to clean up the cities’ neighborhoods where homeless people have set up encampments. Vancouver’s Mayor Kennedy Stewart called for...
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis pushes health system to brink of collapse
Sri Lanka is in the midst of the worst socio-economic crisis in its history, and the once robust health-care system is nearing collapse, with...
Troubled British economy edging toward recession, new data reveals
British economy contracted in the second quarter of the year, according to official figures, with the country swiftly heading towards recession under a yet-to-be-selected...
U.S.-China powerplays for global influence increase hostilities
The manifest loss of America as a dominant global power was apparent during a visit to Africa by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
Sudan’s political and leadership turmoil continues
Understanding Sudanese politics is like a long-distance relationship. You never fully appreciate the relationship until you are living with the person you are in...
London police strip-searched 650 mostly Black youth in two-year period, report unveils
Police in London have strip-searched 650 mostly Black children—most of whom were found to be innocent of the suspicions against them—over a two-year period, the...
Hate crimes against Muslims in Canada jump by 71 percent: Study
Hate crimes against Muslims across Canada jumped by 71 percent in 2021, according to a newly released report by the government agency Statistics Canada. Released...