Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’: Amnesty | Human Rights News

Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’: Amnesty | Human Rights News

Rights group says President Nayib Bukele has reduced gang violence by replacing it with state violence. As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele embarks on his second term in office, an international rights group has warned that his war on gangs has created a spiralling human rights crisis. As of February…

Canada launches programme to get citizens out of violence-hit Haiti | Politics News

Canada launches programme to get citizens out of violence-hit Haiti | Politics News

Canada has organised helicopter flights for ‘vulnerable’ citizens to leave Haiti for the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Canada has launched a programme to get its citizens out of Haiti, as the Caribbean nation grapples with a surge in gang violence, political instability and a widening humanitarian crisis. Speaking to reporters in…

Bodies of 65 people found in mass grave in Libya: UN migration agency | Refugees News

Bodies of 65 people found in mass grave in Libya: UN migration agency | Refugees News

The IOM believes the people were migrants who died in the process of being smuggled through the desert in Libya. The bodies of at least 65 people have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the United Nations’ migration agency has said. In a statement on Friday, the…

Two bar workers arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ ‘extremism’ case | LGBTQ News

Two bar workers arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ ‘extremism’ case | LGBTQ News

The suspects will remain in custody until May 18 and face as long as 10 years in prison if found guilty. A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a bar administrator and its art director, accusing them of organising an “extremist organisation” under new legislation criminalising the LGBTQ community….

How Israeli settlers are expanding illegal outposts amid Gaza war | Israel War on Gaza

How Israeli settlers are expanding illegal outposts amid Gaza war | Israel War on Gaza

In the secluded hills south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Abu al-Kabash used to wake up daily to his prized possession: a grove of pomegranate and fig trees that towered over the six different kinds of aloe plants enveloping his home. That is all gone. Since Israel started…

The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation | Women’s Rights News

The Gambia votes to reverse landmark ban on female genital mutilation | Women’s Rights News

Rights groups say proposed rollback of 2015 law will overturn women’s rights across the region as a whole. The Gambia has taken steps towards lifting a ban on female circumcision, a move that could make it the first country in the world to reverse legal protections against the practice for…

Maqali, a simple Syrian dish that saved a displaced family’s Ramadan iftar | Food

Maqali, a simple Syrian dish that saved a displaced family’s Ramadan iftar | Food

ِAl-Yaman Camp, Idlib, northwest Syria – Looking to make something tasty and thrifty, Bayan al-Jassem, 32, decided to reach for a staple of the Syrian kitchen, maqali (said with a glottal stop). The decision was reached a few hours before sundown on the second day of Ramadan, the holy month…

UK plans to pay asylum seekers to move to Rwanda | Migration News

UK plans to pay asylum seekers to move to Rwanda | Migration News

Plans are separate from the ‘Rwanda bill’, a stalled plan to forcibly deport most asylum seekers to the African country. The United Kingdom’s government is considering plans to pay asylum seekers whose applications have failed up to 3,000 British pounds ($3,840) to move to Rwanda. The proposed scheme, part of…

Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Not just the UNRWA report: Countless accounts of Israeli torture in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News

Though it has yet to respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment, Israel continues to push back against the accusations of torture levelled at its armed forces in an unpublished report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The report details the extensive use of torture against Palestinians…

Why is India’s Citizenship Amendment Act so controversial? | India Election 2024 News

Why is India’s Citizenship Amendment Act so controversial? | India Election 2024 News

The Indian government on Monday announced the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a law that was passed by parliament in 2019 but was not enforced until now. This decision on the CAA – whose passage in parliament had set off protests across the country five years ago over…