Lawyers acting on behalf of two Uyghur rights groups filed a criminal case in an Argentine court on Wednesday alleging that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity through its repressive policies targeting Muslims in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region
The price of rice, a food staple in Southeast Asia, and other commodities has shot up as much as 50 percent over the last two months in Myanmar, another hardship for the country’s beleaguered citizens, many of whom have already had to flee their homes because of ongoing conflict, traders and consumers said
Since the Taliban seized power following the U.S. withdrawal of all troops, Afghan women and girls have witnessed a dramatic disintegration of their rights and standard of living
At least 15 civilians died during fierce fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and junta forces in Hpakant township, in Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin state
Myanmar’s military pounded the Sagaing townships of Tabayin, Ye-U and Ayadaw with a third day of attacks by air and land, residents and anti-junta fighters said Thursday, following a vow by the junta to restore the embattled region “to its original state.”
A Uyghur scholar who studied in Turkey and worked for an international company in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was arrested by authorities from his hometown Urumqi, a local police officer and Uyghurs with knowledge of the situation said
Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced,” a police officer in a major city said
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front rebel group and the Ethiopian government are gearing up for peace talks to put an end to the conflicts that started in November 2020. Although townspeople and militia men in the badly damaged town of Abala claim they are prepared for peace, observers claim it won’t be simple to achieveE
A prominent Uyghur poet and associate professor at a teacher’s college was detained in 2017 as a “threat to social stability” and sentenced to 13 years in prison on a “separatism” charge, a local police officer and Uyghur source told RFA
New President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday shot down calls from human rights groups for the Philippines to rejoin the International Criminal Court, saying the country could conduct its own investigations into deaths related to his predecessor’s drug wars ¹