カテゴリー: Global development
Rights groups warn of possible humanitarian crisis as those left off list face statelessness and detentionAlmost 2 million people in north-east India face the threat of statelessness and detention after they were excluded from an official list designed…
People who cannot prove links to region from before 1971 face being sent to detention campsMillions of people in north-eastern India could lose their citizenship on Saturday in what could become the biggest exercise in forced statelessness in living me…
Amnesty says activists have been attacked and killed with impunity, with their plight ‘largely ignored’ at home and abroadHuman rights defenders in Afghanistan are suffering relentless attacks, intimidation and harassment amid escalating violence, Amne…
Complaint against International Organization of Migration of ‘severe concerns’ over treatment of rescued migrants in TunisiaThe UN migration agency is the subject of a formal complaint after “severe concerns” were raised about its treatment of Banglade…
Punjab joins regions where polythene bags are illegal and stiff fines take effect in Islamabad amid demands for alternativesPunjab has become the latest region in Pakistan to ban plastic bags, as the country battles to reduce single-use plastics that a…
The government says money will fund new infrastructure but do climate investments like this work?The Morrison government has committed to spend $500m on climate change and disaster resilience in the Pacific.The announcement – on top of an existing comm…
Record temperatures in Europe and the US have reinforced the danger of global heating for many inhabitants. But others are and will be far worse hitWe tend to learn better from experience than from what we have simply been told. So for many in Europe, …
Punjab residents must plant 10 trees to get a firearms licence – and send photos to prove itResidents in a district of the Indian state of Punjab who want to buy a gun face an unlikely new hurdle: to secure a firearm licence, they must plant at least 1…
Narendra Modi claims the programme will showcase India’s ‘beautiful mountains and mighty rivers’, in the latest in a string of choreographed media appearancesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, will appear with Bear Grylls in a wilderness survival t…
Baiq Nuril Maknun had been sentenced to six months for documenting boss’s lewd callsIndonesia’s parliament has unanimously approved an amnesty for a woman who was jailed for documenting sexual harassment by her employer.Baiq Nuril Maknun, 37, who worke…
Foreign minister defends controversial proposal as ‘only solution’ despite misgivings of human rights campaignersThe first Rohingya refugees could be relocated to an island in the next few months under controversial plans drawn up by the Bangladesh gov…