Will international community help avert Yemen famine?
Famine in Yemen is considered a “real possibility” this year. More than three million people – including 460,000 children – are acutely malnourished and the situation is deteriorating on a daily basis. The UN says 7.3 million Yemenis do not know where their next meal is coming from. The crisis has been brought on by […]
Burundi army chief Prime Niyongabo ‘escapes assassination attempt’
The head of Burundi’s armed forces has survived an assassination attempt in the capital Bujumbura, police said, adding that at least seven other people were killed in the attack. “There was an attack against the armed forces chief, General Prime Niyongabo, but happily he was unharmed,” Burundi’s deputy police chief, General Godefroid Bizimana, told AFP […]
96,000 children are starving and close to death in the port city of al-Hodeidah in Yemen
The UN children’s agency says 96,000 children are starving and close to death in the port city of al-Hodeidah. It estimates nearly 8,000 children will suffer from severe malnutrition in the southern port city of Aden in the next year. Already, almost two million children across the country do not have enough food or water. […]
Kashmiri rights group documents structure of impunity and violence, including killings and enforced disappearances
The Indian government has covered up hundreds of cases of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances in the disputed territory of Kashmir, a new report has alleged. Khurram Parvez, programme coordinator of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCSS), told Al Jazeera on the release of the report, titled Structures of […]
Jordan has a population of 6 million, but have taken in 1.5 million refugees. All with no protest
Jordan takes in far more refugees than Germany, but there are no protests. Anyone who wants to learn the meaning of charity and human kindness should take a look at the way refugees are treated there. It was the second day in our new home in Amman: I turned on the kitchen tap, there was […]
2,209 Syrian children killed in 2015 says Human Rights report
The UK-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a report released Friday that 2,209 children were killed in Syria between January and August this year. According to the report, the Syrian regime killed 1,804 children, making up 82 percent of the death toll, while 175 children were killed by various opposition forces. Twenty […]
Independent takes the decision to publish sobering photographs of the human cost of the current refugee crisis
The pictures show a small boy lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach as an official stands over him. The child, who is thought to be Syrian, has drowned in an apparent attempt to flee the war ravaging his country. They are extraordinary images and serve as a stark reminder that, as […]
How ISIS has established a bureaucracy of rape
One year on from the summit to end sexual violence in conflict, convened by Angelina Jolie and William Hague in London, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has developed a complex bureaucracy of sex slavery that makes a mockery of the summit’s goal to bring about an end to the use of rape and sexual violence in […]
Lebanese govt has approved a subsidy to help export companies after the closure of the Jordan-Syria border
During a heated meeting last month, the Lebanese government agreed to subsidise the shipping of agricultural goods by sea, three months after the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. Before the war in Syria, exported goods from Lebanon would travel through Syria towards Iraq and Turkey. But passage to both countries has been closed since the […]
Former head of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency Hamid Gul dies
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency who strongly backed the Taliban, has died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 79. Gul, who was a military commander in the Pakistani Army in the 1980s, died on Saturday night at a military hospital in Muree, 50km northeast of the capital Islamabad.He […]
