The United Nations lead official for human rights called on Friday for a full and independent investigation of human rights abuses in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, where reports say over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been held in a vast network of internment camps since 2017
Christine Schraner Burgener, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar, briefs the General Assembly on the situation in Myanmar at an informal meeting of the plenary
Three years ago, Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from a school in Dapchi, Nigeria. One girl, Leah Sharibu, remains in captivity
Hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has increased almost fourfold over the past two years – from 2.2 million people in 2018 to close to 8 million people in 2021
With internet access increasing in many emerging democracies, use of social media is changing the ways that candidates and voters interact
Journalists covering mass street protests against Myanmar’s military junta are increasingly reporting threats, arrests and harassment from authorities tightening a crackdown on opponents of the Feb. 1 coup in what a local press watchdog called an attempted “news blackout.”
Child advocates in Nigeria estimate that tens of thousands of young people have been orphaned by Boko Haram militant attacks. But some of them are finding reason to be hopeful about their future
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has taken to the streets of Yerevan, along with his supporters on February 25 after what he called “an attempted military coup” by Armenian army officers who wrote a letter demanding his resignation
Highly crowded Lahore city in Pakistan has the same crowding issues of many urban environments. To help ease the problem, the government plans to build a new city just to the North, but that has some residents worried
The Catholic Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua, located in the very central Istiklal Caddesi, one of the most famous avenues in Istanbul, is currently in no danger of ending up on the real estate market as a private luxury building. In recent days, Sebahattin Gök has been arrested and brought to justice, the man who last year, thanks to a network of accomplices, organized a complex fraudulent operation to illegally gain possession of the largest church Catholic Istanbul in order to resell it to the highest bidder. Investigations into the case confirmed that the “gang” of Gök and his associates were specializing in real estate scams committed against ecclesial and religious communities as well as foreign owners or those belonging to ethnic minority groups