By Mohammad Zaman* – The Daily Star Jan 2019 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) – To date, much has been written and said about the Rohingya crisis. The regime in Naypyidaw has literally flouted all international laws and evaded pressures from the international community.
By Rebecca Onion *- Slate A century before Trump, the KKK also wanted to halt immigration. And while a real wall wasn’t in their playbook, their motivations and goals sound eerily familiar Last week, as the president continued to insist on the building of his proposed border…
By Leila Yasmine Khan and Daud Khan (*) AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jan 2019 (IPS) – The Rohingya are a minority community living in Rakhine State in Myanmar. The Muslim Rohingya are considered intruders into Buddhist Myanmar – illegal immigrants from bordering Bangladesh.
By Brendan Cole – Newsweek Here Is How the American People Would Pay for It Money could be diverted from disaster funds—like those set aside to help storm-ravaged Puerto Rico—to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall, it has been reported. NBC News reported that the president…
By Chandran Nair* Address migration’s root causes: Rather than fund walls, nations could end wars and offer development aid to help people stay at home HONG KONG: A freighter trundles into a harbor, carrying several hundred migrants escaping war. Authorities discover them and…
Robert Reich*, Opinion – Newsweek After his first bizarre year, his apologists told us Donald Trump was growing into the job and that in his second year he’d be more restrained and respectful of democratic institutions. He’s been worse.
Opinion of Robert Reich* – Newsweek Trump said Friday “we are totally prepared for a very long shut down.” It was one of his rare uses of the pronoun “we” instead of his preferred—and in this case far more appropriate—“I.” The shutdown is indubitably his. Congress offered him a…
Human Wrongs Watch ( By teleSUR) A green wave hit Argentina, the case of murdered activist Berta Caceras brought to justice, and Central American refugees treked to the U.S. Central American Exodus – Migrant Caravan: Migrants Find Strength in Unity Over 10,000 Central…
Of Cockroaches and Humans By Roberto Savio* Rita Levi-Montalcini, the Italian Nobel laureate honoured for her work in neurobiology, once gave a splendid conference with the title “The imperfect brain”. There she explained that man has a brain that is not used completely, while…
Federica Marsi – The National The first UN global agreement setting up a common framework on the management of international migration flows was formally adopted on Monday as a two-day intergovernmental conference began in Marrakech. Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser…
