8-year-old Asifa’s heinous rape and murder in India fans the flames of nationalism

Early in January 2018, Asifa, an 8-year-old Muslim child from the nomadic Bakarwal community in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, was gang-raped and murdered, as reported by Global Voices. Much of India's local news...

Why violent Buddhist extremists are targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka

New clashes between Buddhist extremists and Muslims occurred in two different towns in Sri Lanka, Kandy and Ampara, in early 2018. Triggered in part by hate-filled posts spread by nationalistic Sinhala Buddhist Facebook groups, these riots resulted in...

Religion is not the only reason Rohingyas are being forced out of Myanmar #Rohingya

Religion is not the only reason Rohingyas are being forced out of Myanmar Giuseppe Forino, University of Newcastle; Jason von Meding, University of Newcastle, and Thomas Johnson, University of Newcastle Recent weeks have seen an escalation...

As Rohingyas flee Myanmar, India needs to drop religious criteria in its refugee law...

As Rohingyas flee Myanmar, India needs to drop religious criteria in its refugee law Nafees Ahmad, South Asian University More than 90,000 Rohingyas, victims of a new surge of violence in Myanmar, are fleeing the...

Rohingya genocide: the world can’t help until Myanmar changes its ways #Rohingya

Rohingya genocide: the world can't help until Myanmar changes its ways Ashraful Azad, University of Chittagong After two weeks of extreme violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where at least 400 people have been killed and 270,000...

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My focus is on British foreign policy over the last decade during which I have been director of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. My thesis is that the One...

Military planes bomb ISIS targets in Marawi City, Philippines

ILIGAN CITY – Military aircrafts on Saturday continue to bomb enemy targets in Marawi City where jihadists were holed out as security forces battled ISIS-affiliate Maute group and their armed supporters fighting for the...

Bilkis Banu Case: The Prolonged Trail & Half Justice

GODHRA INCIDENT The morning of 22 February, 2002 the Sabarmati express train, enroute from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad was attacked and burnt near Godhra railway station killing 59 Kar Sevaks. This resulted in an outbreak of the...

A tribute to Yameen Rasheed – and a Call for Justice and Accountability in...

Yameen Rasheed, age 29, was an outspoken journalist and political satirist who frequently criticised the Government of the Maldives and the country’s trend towards radical Islam on his blog The Daily Panic and on...

Pakistan’s outdated blasphemy laws are not fit for the 21st century

Pakistan's outdated blasphemy laws are not fit for the 21st century Parveen Akhtar, Aston University A recent escalation of violence in Pakistan inspired by reports of blasphemy online has highlighted the need for the country’s restrictive...

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