(118) More Than 1,000 Srebrenica Genocide Victims Still Missing 31 Years Later
Thirty-one years after Bosnian Serb forces overran the UN-declared “safe area” of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, triggering a massacre later recognized as genocide by international courts, the remains of more than 1,000 victims have yet to be found. On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces led by convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic overran the […]
(117) How Death And Despair Haunt Pakistan’s Christian Minority
Pakistan’s Christians have long been marginalised and pushed into sewer cleaning work.In the absence of workplace health and safety regulations and ethical superintendence, Pakistan’s sanitation workers, about 85 percent of whom are Christian, are routinely exposed to a host of unsafe and deadly work practices. Pakistani Christians have continued to endure substandard living conditions, and […]
(116) Mass Scam Centre Escapes Reveal A Humanitarian Crisis In Cambodia
In recent years, Cambodia – along with Myanmar and Laos – has gained a reputation as a burgeoning cyberscam centre, with dozens of large-scale scam “farms” springing up in rice fields in border areas. January Amnesty International report – based on interviews with 35 victims from 12 countries – detailed how scam workers were allegedly […]
(115) Uganda Votes In Fear Amid Internet Blackout And Police Crackdown
Uganda was on edge as polls opened, with President Yoweri Museveni expected to extend his 40-year rule amid an internet shutdown and a police crackdown on the opposition. It is a familiar feeling for Ugandans after four decades of rule by Museveni, 81, a former bush fighter steeped in the ideology of revolutionary violence, whose […]
(114) Syria Says Nearly 140,000 People Still Missing
The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP) is the first entity of its kind established by the UN General Assembly in June 2023. It is dedicated to determining the fate and whereabouts of all missing persons in Syria and supporting survivors and families of the missing. Fifty years of dictatorship […]
(113) Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign
On September 24, Denmark will formally organize an official apology to Greenland after an investigation has established the state’s responsibility in the so-called IUD campaign initiated in 1965 that victimized thousands of Greenlandic women, who have been victims of systematic discrimination during the birth control campaign that took place in Greenland from 1965 to 1991. […]
(112) Mass Circumcision Ceremony That Killed 93 Kids Is Set To Happen Again
Traditional rituals that mark the path to manhood are part of many African cultures. In South Africa the secretive initiation season costs the lives of dozens of boys each year. Hudreds more sustain terrible injuries at the secluded initiation sites where initiates are taught traditional chants and fighting techniques but often beaten and humiliated as […]
(111) Forced Sterilization And Impunity In Peru
More than 300,000 women were sterilised under the guise of a family planning scheme, enacted by the government of ex-president Alberto Fujimori during the 1990s. Estimates suggest less than 10 per cent gave consent. For decades the women – who were primarily rural and indigenous – have fought for justice, eventually taking their case to […]
(110) Holocaust Memorial Day – 80th Anniversary Of The Liberation Of Auschwitz
People across the world are marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ most notorious death camp. Auschwitz was the largest concentration and extermination centre in the Third Reich – more than 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives there. A day of international commemoration, Holocaust Memorial Day is dedicated to […]
(109) Boko Haram’s Latest Attacks Displace Thousands of Christians in Nigeria
Boko Haram is escalating attacks on Christian communities in Chibok, Borno state, displacing more than 4,000 Christians in recent days. In a series of coordinated raids, Boko Haram targeted the Christian villages of Njila, Banziir, Shikarkir, and Yirmirmug, burning homes, torching churches, and killing five people. Eyewitnesses reported that Boko Haram militants targeted Christians during […]