Category: International

Poland, France and Ukraine have introduced partial lockdowns as they battle surging coronavirus infections.

Washington, DC, U.S- Peniel Ibe, policy engagement coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee and Co-Chair of the Interfaith Immigration Coalition, responded to the murder of eight people, most of Asian descent, in Georgia, Atlanta this week.

Billions of dollars in dirty money flowed through Danske Bank’s branch in Estonia, an explosive 2014 audit revealed. The original report had never been made public, until now.

Eight people, many of them women of Asian descent, have been killed in shootings at spas in the US state of Georgia.

Germany, France and Italy have halted rollouts of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after a series of incidents in Europe involving blood clots.

Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) is probably the most talked about crown prince in the history of the Wahhabi kingdom, in a political culture where leaders are usually careful not to air their dirty laundry in public and fear abrupt decisions and risk-taking above all else.

In the words of a former senior official at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): “When you start working at the UN, an institution that was entirely conceived and founded on the basis of equality and human rights, you never imagine this kind of behaviour.

Myanmar’s military has terminated the country’s short-lived experience with democracy by removing democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and declaring a one-year state of emergency.

Reading, Pennsylvania and San Diego, California — Aldea – The People’s Justice Center and Haitian Bridge Alliance celebrate the hard-fought release of two families from the Berks County Residential Center (“Berks”), who fled Haiti due to political persecution.

Kabul, Afghanistan and Sydney, AustraliaCOVID-19 is one of the biggest global challenges in modern history, and all nations are grappling with its impacts. But some countries have responded by shutting their doors even further to the world’s most vulnerable.