カテゴリー: Conflict and arms
Japanese prime minister among those to pay tribute after Tetsu Nakamura is killed in deadly ambush on carThe head of a Japanese aid agency and five other people have been killed in an ambush in eastern AfghanistanAmong the victims was Tetsu Nakamura, 7…
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister…
In a country where decades of conflict have taken a profound toll on mental health, professional support is scarceHuman Rights Watch has raised alarms over the lack of mental health support in wartorn Afghanistan, where more than half of the population…
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…
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…