by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jul 18 (IPS) – As human rights increasingly deteriorate, rights defenders are being violently suppressed. Abducted, detained, tortured, and humiliated, many now live one day at a time. They have been told, in no uncertain times, that anything could…
An elderly woman joins a caravan of displaced people during the joint offensive by Ankara and Islamist militias against the Kurdish-Syrian enclave of Afrin, in January 2018. Only 20% of the original population remains in the occupied zone today. Credit: HH/IPS by Karlos Zurutuza, Gilad Sade (rome) Tuesday, July 18, 2023…
Nearly 12 million people are imprisoned globally, with almost one third awaiting sentencing, at a time when prisons are overcrowded in half of all countries, according to a new UN report released on Tuesday. On the occasion of Nelson Mandela International Day, marked on 18 July, UN News took a…
Concerns over legislation The Illegal Immigration Bill eliminates access to asylum for anyone who arrives “irregularly” in the UK, meaning they passed through a country – however briefly – where they did not face persecution. The bill bars migrants from presenting refugee protection or other human rights claims, regardless of…
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 18 (IPS) – The world faces a disaster emergency, yet nowhere is the threat more immediate than in Asia and the Pacific. Ours is a region where climate change-induced disasters are becoming more frequent…
EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER+ INTERVIEW — In the wake of a Kremlin decision to halt a U.N.-brokered Black Sea agreement, which allowed Ukraine to export tens of millions of tons of grains and oilseeds, world attention is now increasingly focused on a key Russian partner — and the deal’s biggest beneficiary: China, a…
Climate change poses a direct threat to small-scale peasants in Afghanistan, with soaring summer temperatures and frigid winters becoming increasingly challenging. Monday, July 17, 2023 Inter Press Service Jul 17 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is…
Comment on this storyComment A former professional soccer player was brought to the U.S. 10 years ago from Belgium, accused of plotting a mass murder for al-Qaeda. On Friday, he was acquitted on all charges in D.C. federal court. But Nizar Trabelsi remains in limbo, isolated in a jail on…
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, July 17, 2023 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Jul 17 (IPS) – With preparations for America’s 2030 population census underway and the Census Bureau encouraging additional public input, it’s time to seriously evaluate the continued inclusion of the race question…
Ukraine’s military and security services were responsible for the attack on a key bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula to the Russian region of Krasnodar, a Ukrainian official said Monday. Ukraine used sea surface drones to attack the bridge — an important supply artery for Russia’s war in Ukraine —…
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