Reuters International JULY 15, 2017 A Rohingya boy walks at a refugee camp in Sitwe, in the state of Rakhine, Myanmar March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (reuters_tickers) By Simon Lewis KYAR GAUNG TAUNG, Myanmar, 2017 – Rohingya Muslim women lined up to tell reporters of missing husbands, mothers […]
June 29, 2017 By Ramzy Baroud Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical care and proper dentistry work cost him all of his teeth, which rotted and decayed […]
Reuters International JULY 12, 2017 By Simon Lewis SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar pledged on Wednesday “no restrictions” on journalists visiting the troubled state of Rakhine this week, in the first official trip to include foreign reporters to mostly Rohingya Muslim villages affected by violence since October. Eighteen Myanmar […]
THE United States on Monday called on Burma (Myanmar) to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Burma‘s Rakhine state. The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council established the inquiry in March, but Aung San Suu Kyi, the de […]
Jun 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri Everywhere in the world, civil society, government, private sector and religious groups work hard to overcome prejudice and hatred, and to promote tolerance and coexistence. So why is it that all these efforts fail to stem the continued expansion of radical […]
In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan’s ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah clearly warned us of some of the most lethal evils, if not nipped in the bud, would cause us irretrievable damage — sooner than later. How true when […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Protesters holds signs as they demand that a white former police officer be tried a third time in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo) As many in the United States celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, some minorities have […]
19 June 2017, Algeria must halt its clampdown against members of the minority Ahmadiyya religious movement, said Amnesty International today, ahead of the appeal hearing on 21 June of six Ahmadis sentenced to up to four years in prison for charges relating to the exercise of their religion. At […]
Reuters International JUN 8, 2017 – A Rohingya girl sits outside her shelter in a refugee camp outside Kyaukpyu in Rakhine state, Myanmar May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun […]
Decision by West Java authorities seen as another example of persecution minority Muslim group Authorities seal a mosque belonging to Ahmadiyya Muslims in Parakansalak in West Java in this July 26, 2016 file photo. Sect members have spoken out against the closure of another mosque in nearby Sawangan during Ramadan. (Photo courtesy of […]
Reuters International JUN 6, 2017 – 14:28 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley attends the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse […]
Sunday, 04 June 2017 | Depok Mayor sealed Al Hidayah Mosque in relation to JAI. (Doc: Hidayah) DEPOK, NETRALNEWS.COM – Depok Ahmadiyya Community associated in the Indonesia Ahmadiyya Community (JAI) […]
May 22, 2017 An official of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, second left, and a soldier collect information from a resident during a census at Rabwah in Chiniot District in Punjab province, Pakistan, in this March 27, 2017 file photo. — AFP RABWAH, Pakistan — Marginalized, attacked and frequently hit […]
Jakarta. Tears streamed down the face of Nana Riwayatie as she spoke about the fate of her adoptive brother, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, in front of a crowd of his supporters on Wednesday (10/05). Just a day earlier, the court sentenced the embattled Jakarta governor to two years in prison […]
She laughed at the idea that Sessions treats all Americans equally Clark Mindock New York 0:00 / 0:45 The woman was arrested after laughing during the hearing SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/jeff-sessions-woman-guilty-laughing-year-jail-sentence-code-pink-protester-a7716456.html
Reuters International APR 13, 2017 – An interior view shows the building of a school, which was seized by Islamist militants in 2004 in the southern town of Beslan, Russia, April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev (reuters_tickers) By Kazbek Basayev and Andrew Osborn BESLAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia broke European human rights […]
Leader is asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country Jon Sharman 2 hours ago 2 comments Aung […]
By AFP – Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian people hold banner during a social media campaign ‘#SavePalPeople’ in Gaza City, Gaza, on Saturday (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is blocking rights activists’ access to and from the Gaza Strip, hampering their work in the Palestinian enclave […]
Kashif N Chaudhry, ContributorPhysician, Writer, Human Rights Activist 03/30/2017 During a forum in Washington D.C. yesterday, a Pakistani American journalist questioned Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Aizaz Chaudhry, on Pakistan’s state-sponsored persecution of Ahmadi Muslims. Mr. Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. The diplomat, who […]
MPs listen to demonstrators, pledge to examine and follow up on matter By Rana Husseini – Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters stage a sit-in in front of Parliament on Tuesday calling on the government to grant full citizenship rights to children of Jordanian women married to foreigners (Photo by […]