Social media posts showed a line of overturned police cars, while eyewitnesses said younger people had hit back at incoming police lines with projectiles. Dozens of people were beaten and detained before police regained control of the area, according to local media reports and eyewitness accounts
Humanitarians are providing emergency relief, including food, access to clean water, shelter and medicine to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases
On Tuesday (26 Nov) she visited Heal Africa Hospital, which partners partner with UNICEF taking care of victims of sexual violence. Heal Africa is especially taking care of minor victims. Also, Heal Africa takes care of orphan kids and other vulnerable children. These children have a school inside the hospital
Yonten’s protest follows the December 2018 self-immolation of DrukKho, also in Ngaba, and brings to 156 the number of self-immolations by Tibetans since the wave of fiery protests against Chinese rule of their homeland began in 2009
Data from the National Statistics Service in fact show that the balance between people who left Armenia and those who entered did in fact decrease by 88.6 percent over the period Pashinyan identified
The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) will conduct a team field visit led by member Myint Kyi to Pyapon township on Dec. 2-4, to investigate reported forced labor and human rights violations in the local fishing industry
The military opened Tuesday’s court proceedings at a military base in Buthidaung to the public, and family members of the accused can attend, though Zaw Min Tun said there might be limitations on account of instability in the region
Twenty-nine people, including 17 foreigners, were killed in an overnight siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter – the deadliest terrorist attack carried out in Bangladesh’s history as a nation. A tribunal brought terror-related charges against eight defendants in custody
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in as many as 1,300 to 1,400 internment camps, one of the world’s foremost experts on mass incarcerations in the region said in a paper released Sunday
Parliamentarian Janar Akayev summed up the general disgust over the country’s corruption battle when he complained, during a November 21 session of parliament, that “a bribe was stolen by [different] bribe-takers.”