Human RightsImmigration and RefugeesInequality and Social JusticemilitarizationRadical extremismTerrorismViolence 5 min readMass Murder of Civilians in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region Amounts to ‘War Crime’ 14 July 20210Radio Free Asia (RFA) * At least 15 bodies found in a remote jungle were brutally tortured and executed, villagers... Read More
Armed conflictsChildrenHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesmilitarizationRadical extremismReligionViolence 3 min readBiden Turns His Back on Yemen 12 July 20210By Aisha Jumaan and Charles Pierson (*) – Common Dreams While he is a welcome change from the incompetence, venality,... Read More
Armed conflictsHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesIntelligenceInternational relationsmilitarizationRadical extremismViolence 4 min readAfghanistan: two decades of Nato help leaves a failed and fractured state on the brink of civil war 12 July 20210By Natasha Lindstaedt* – The Conversation Afghanistan is falling apart. With US and Nato troops leaving the country earlier than... Read More
Armed conflictsChildrenHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesmilitarizationRadical extremismViolence 13 min readThe Human Cost of 10 Years of Conflict in Syria 30 June 20210By John Washington* – The Nation A decade after the first shots were fired, cities are in ruins, over half... Read More
ChildrenHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesViolence 6 min readUN’s Double Standard on Human Rights Abusers Protects Big Powers 28 June 20210By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2021 (IPS) – When the UN’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict was... Read More
Armed conflictsHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesPeacePoliticsRadical extremismViolence 6 min read“The Creation of a Palestinian State Is Inescapable” 25 June 20210By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, Jun 25 2021 (IPS) – Every Israeli will sooner than later realize that the creation... Read More
Armed conflictsHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesPopulationViolence 2 min readMozambique – Update, Cabo Delgado Situation, 29 May – 11 June 2021 21 June 20210By ReliefWeb* As of April, 732,000 persons were displaced in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala and Zambezia... Read More
Armed conflictsChildrenHistoryHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesRadical extremismViolence 15 min readOn Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine: The Final Solution Without End 17 June 20210By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Yet another ceasefire like so many others before it, in Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine;... Read More
Armed conflictsHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesmilitarizationRadical extremismViolencexenofobia 3 min readUN warns of ‘mass deaths’ in Myanmar after 100,000 flee fighting 10 June 20210By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food... Read More
Armed conflictsCorruptionHuman RightsImmigration and RefugeesIntelligencemilitarizationRacismRadical extremismViolence 3 min readThe Guardian view on Israel’s new coalition: not yet a new era 4 June 20210Editorial The ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu, if it occurs, will be an opportunity. But Naftali Bennett’s government will struggle to... Read More