By Maïa de La Baume – POLITICO Italian League leader hopes to form biggest group in the European Parliament MILAN — Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini declared Monday he aims to form the biggest group in the European Parliament as he joined forces with Euroskeptics from…
Khan Apr 2019 – According to UN investigators in late 2018 and early January 2019, genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has hardly stopped . All objective reports indicate that the government is demonstrating by its inactions that it has no interest in preventing…
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 2019 (IPS) – Young Rohingya refugees are now facing new hardships as the Bangladeshi government cracks down on their education and future opportunities. Since January, the Government of Bangladesh has ordered the expulsion…
By David Leonhardt, Opinion Columnist –T he New York Times A C.E.O. Who’s Scared for America Peter Georgescu — a refugee-turned-C.E.O. who recently celebrated his 80th birthday — feels deeply grateful to his adopted country.
By Porimol Palma – The Daily Star, Bangladesh Mar 28 2019 – (The Daily Star) – A transnational human-trafficking syndicate committed crimes against humanity in Malaysia and Thailand against the Rohingya from 2012 to 2015, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) and…
Human Wrongs Watch (1) – By Human Rights Watch (2) Yangon – The Myanmar and Chinese governments have failed to stem the trafficking of ethnic Kachin women and girls as “brides” to families in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 21 March 2019. The 112-page…
By Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer – Politico Opponents see suspension by conservatives as ‘political trick.’ Europe’s most powerful political family imposed a timeout on its troublesome son but stopped short of kicking him out. The European People’s Party (EPP), the…
Suzanne Moore – The Guardian The New Zealand prime minister has reacted to the Christchurch shootings with steel, compassion and absolute clarity. And she has given us a vision of a better world Out of the horror inflicted by those who cannot accept the world as it is, comes a…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures The countries that aligned to help protect Assad may be reconsidering their allegiances Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and Russia had agreed to cooperate on withdrawing foreign forces from…
By LILI BAYER, MAÏA DE LA BAUME AND PHILIP KALETA – POLITICO Hungarian leader at heart of crisis for Europe’s center right faces big decisions on his party’s future. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is at a crossroads.
