US urges Saudis to review cases of “prisoners of conscience”
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United States urged ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to review cases of “prisoners of conscience” and lift travel bans and other restrictions imposed on women’s rights activists previously released from jail. The rare US intervention on the matter came with US-Saudi ties strained over a range of issues including the Yemen war, […]
“A war for life of our child”: Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict
ANNA KOPER and JENNIFER RIGBY, of Reuters, report on the spectre of a regional health catastrophe which could come on top of the huge toll in death and destruction due to the fighting in Ukraine…
Updated: Big brands and oil ban punish Russia as Moscow makes new pledge on Ukraine refugees
Updated: 11.45pm (AEDT)Washington DC, US/Lviv, UkraineReuters A US ban on imports of Russia’s oil ratcheted up punishment for the invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday as McDonald’s and Starbucks closed outlets and Moscow promised safe passage for some people to flee. As the number of refugees created by the biggest assault on a European country since […]
Vote delayed again, some United Methodists say they quit. Now what?
RNS Last week, when the United Methodist Church postponed – for the third time in as many years – a vote on an orderly plan to split the mainline Protestant denomination long riven by disagreement over the full inclusion of its LGBTQ members, some conservative United Methodists announced they were finally done: They would launch […]
Essay: The UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine is a hollow promise for civilians under fire in Ukraine
In an article published on The Conversation, PETER LEE, professor of applied ethics and director of security and risk research at University of Portsmouth in the UK, looks at the concept of ‘responsibility to protect’…