Essay: Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy
MAXIM KRUPSKIY, a visiting scholar at Tufts University’s Russia and Eurasia Program, writes – in an article first publiushed on The Conversation – about the danger of foreign agent laws…
UN rights mission blasts EU on Libya migrant abuses
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters European Union backing for Libyan authorities who stop and detain migrants means the bloc has “aided and abetted” rights violations against migrants, an investigator for a UN mission said on Monday. The EU and member states have supported and trained the Libyan coastguard, which returns migrants stopped at sea to detention centres, […]
More than 2,000 Afghan evacuees in detention in UAE – Human Rights Watch
Washington DC, US Reuters Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused Emirati authorities of arbitrarily detaining for more than 15 months as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees who have no legal pathways to refugee status or resettlement elsewhere. Many of those housed in Emirates Humanitarian City are suffering from depression and other psychological ailments, have no […]
Essay: Syria’s earthquake survivors struggle in a disaster made far worse by civil war, bombed-out hospitals and currency collapse
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based academic ORA SZEKLEY says the consequences of the earthquake in Syria can be explained in part by the country’s devastating civil war…
Malaysia pressed to probe deaths of 150 foreigners in detention last year
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaReuters Human rights groups have urged Malaysia to investigate conditions at migrant detention centres after the government said 150 foreigners, including seven children, died at the facilities last year. Malaysia routinely detains foreigners without valid permits to remain in the country, including asylum seekers. It is home to millions of undocumented migrants and […]
Essay: War in Ukraine accelerates global drive toward killer robots
JAMES DAWES, of Macalester College in the US, looks at the rise of weaponised artificial intelligence…
US condemns Myanmar arrest, detention of Kachin Baptist leader
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Thursday condemned the Myanmar military authorities’ arrest and detention of a Christian religious leader and called for his immediate release and for all charges against him to be dropped. Reverend Hkalam Samson is the former head of the Kachin Baptist Convention, an organisation based in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state representing […]
Struggling in Jordan, Syrians choose to move to refugee camps
Beirut, LebanonThomson Reuters Foundation Unemployed and hit by rising fuel and electricity prices, some Syrian refugees in Jordan are making a painful choice: moving to the refugee camps they thought they had left behind. Abdallah Hasan al-Jaseem, a father of an almost two-year-old child, gave up on living and working outside the Zaatari camp and […]
A tightening grip: Rising online crackdowns across Asia target citizens, Big Tech
SEN NGUYEN and RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how new laws on content are restrict users’ freedom on social media in Asian nations…
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar trials end with seven more years in jail
Reuters Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of five counts of corruption on Friday and jailed for seven more years, an informed source said, wrapping up a marathon of trials condemned internationally as a sham. In a closed-door court session in army-ruled Myanmar, Suu Kyi, 77, who was arrested during a coup […]