Tag: Human Rights
When will Egypt’s leaders check themselves?
Over the past few weeks in Egypt there have been many clues regarding the country’s leaders’ adherence to their authoritarian approach and their insistence...
As Rohingyas flee Myanmar, India needs to drop religious criteria in...
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...
Rohingya genocide: the world can’t help until Myanmar changes its ways...
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,...
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...
A tribute to Yameen Rasheed – and a Call for Justice...
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...
Leaked Video shows Egyptian Army executing unarmed prisoners in ISIS style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laA0NECDB7I
Shocking video footage has emerged appearing to show Egyptian soldiers executing unarmed, blindfolded detainees in the Sinai Peninsula. The video, broadcast late Thursday by...
The West’s disturbing obsession with how Syrians die
How would you prefer to die? Suffocation by sarin or suffocation by sandstone? Do you favour starvation over succumbing to shrapnel wounds? Or perhaps...
Victim blaming and misogyny in Maldives
Aishath Mohamed, a 25-year-old woman from the island of Kulhudhufushi in Haa Dhaal atoll, recalls her first visit to the capital. She was 12...
Syrian Regime Commits the Most Barbaric Crime in Modern Times
The chemical weapons attack that killed over 70 people in a rebel-held town shows that war crimes continue to take place in Syria, United...
Bangladesh’s new child marriage law swings in the wrong direction
Bangladesh's new child marriage law swings in the wrong direction
M Niaz Asadullah, University of Malaya and Zaki Wahhaj, University of Kent
Bangladesh is a global...