The Tajik government takes little action to investigate or prosecute domestic violence cases and is doing far too little to help survivors, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 19 September
Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, is a graduate from Indiana University who has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater autonomy for the Turkic speaking Uyghur ethnic group in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
The raids, which were held to enforce restrictions already in place, were recently conducted in several areas of Dzamthang county in Sichuan’s Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, one local source told RFA’s Tibetan Service this week
Ragu Nay Myint from a Yangon-based humanitarian assistance group that helps Hindus chastised international organizations for ignoring the plight of the Hindus in Rakhine
China recently organized two visits to monitor internment camps in the XUAR—one for a small group of foreign journalists, and another for diplomats from non-Western countries, including Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Thailand—during which officials dismissed claims about mistreatment and poor conditions in the facilities as “slanderous lies.”
The armed conflict in Southern Cameroons has seen an exodus of thousands of, Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, into Francophone towns seeking education. With this influx, many unscrupulous and corrupt school administrators have resulted in reckless exploitation of these vulnerable persons. before gaining admissions into schools, they have to pay bribes of some times throat-cutting
Houayheuang Xayabouly, 30, criticized the government for delaying their rescue effort, leaving many victims still trapped in areas cut off by floodwaters
The woman was among some 200 people who responded to the call and gathered to sign the letter in a rare event in a country that has little tolerance for unsanctioned gatherings and public initiatives. Some 400 others signed the letter the following day
The Secretary-General visited the Abaco islands together with the Bahamian Prime-Minister Hubert Minnis. They toured the stricken areas in a helicopter provided by the Dutch Royal Navy which dispatched one of its ships to assist in the emergency
Sahar, nicknamed the “Blue Girl” after the main color of her favorite team, the famous Tehran club Esteghlal, had reportedly been told that she could be sentenced to six months in prison