More than 2,000 villagers in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region fled ahead of two days of junta raids, the Kyunhla-Kanbalu Activists Group told RFA on Tuesday.
The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, briefs the Security Council meeting about the Middle East situation (Syria) on February 7,2023-UN Photo by Manuel Elias
In Nagorno-Karabakh, which is mostly under the control of Azerbaijan, over 120,000 ethnic Armenians are presently undergoing a humanitarian crisis as a result of being cut off from the outside world for more than 50 days.
Philippine court has found a video blogger guilty of online sexual harassment in the first ruling under a new law in the country where politicians often intimidate women online.
Tibetan political prisoner and Buddhist monk Geshe Phende Gyaltsen died in prison on Jan. 26, sources inside Tibet and in exile told Radio Free Asia. He was 56.
Marking the 6 February Global Day of Solidarity with Native American activist Leonard Peltier, Amnesty International reiterates its call on President Biden to immediately grant Mr. Peltier clemency.
Research groups argue that the increased use of the Balkan route by migrants and asylum seekers to reach western Europe, as reported by the EU border agency Frontex, is due to the increasing danger of sea routes.
In India, two engineers made the decision to leave their lucrative careers and create a media company in order to combat the dangerous spread of misinformation.
The majority of those killed in the deadly suicide attack on a mosque on January 30 in Peshawar, Pakistan, according to Pakistani authorities, were local police officers.
At least 363 women killed by the junta in the two years since the military seized power in a Feb. 1, 2021, coup, according to Thailand’s Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma).