Additional sanctions have been imposed on Burma’s military dictatorship for its deadly response to pro-democracy protests by U.S.
Tibetan exile political leader Penpa Tsering was sworn in Thursday as Sikyong, or head of Tibet’s India-based government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration, vowing to uphold the Dalai Lama’s “Middle Way” in helping his people cope with harsh Chinese rule
(28 May), Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told journalists that “to say from the start” that the landing in Minsk of a Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday and the subsequent arrest of blogger Raman Pratasevich was a “forced landing, to condemn it and to impose sanctions without any investigation; this kind of behaviour is absolutely irresponsible”
Majuli is a sub-division of Assam’s Jorhat District in north-eastern India, and is the world’s largest river island. Majuli is 90 kilometres or 55 miles long (east to west) and about 16 kilometres or 9 miles wide (north to south). Thousands of migratory birds flock to its water bodies. Majuli Island has a total of twenty-three communities
Despite the fact that there is enough food to feed everyone on the Earth, 746 million people go to bed hungry every night. And 9 million people die each year as a result of famine
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the eastern province of Laghman as fighting between Taliban and Afghan government forces rages
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a woman in an internment camp on suspicion of “religious extremism” after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbors, according to authorities.
The wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2021(May 29) is attended by UN Secretary-General António Guterres
In reaction to a recent outbreak of violence against Asian Americans, U.S. President Joe Biden signed hate crime legislation into law. Residents of Little Saigon in Southern California, on the other hand, claim that racism toward Asians is nothing new
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya’s Department of Gender reports a nearly quintupling of documented cases of gender-based violence