Tag: Human Rights

On Nov. 14, 2023, Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda declared the start of winter in Gaza as sheets of rain flooded the streets. A month later, Owda told her followers that ...

Being the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, has always been a risky business. Modern incumbents are not likely to be murdered before their own altar, beheaded ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of two outspoken critics of China’s crackdown on Uyghurs to serve in top foreign-policy roles in the next administration has been welcomed by Uyghur advocates. ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israeli efforts to secure support from both the Biden and Trump administrations, New Zealand apologizing for exposed systemic abuse, and a ...

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deteriorated further over the past month, according to an assessment by aid groups, despite demands made by the Biden administration that Israel take specific ...

Officials in the U.S. state of Georgia have warned of likely Russian interference in the U.S. election—even as the country of Georgia struggles with Russian interference in its own recent ...

Sitting on the floor of a rented room in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Karim recalls the pain and grief he sustained during a bombing in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August, severely ...

Author Han Kang won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, becoming the first Asian woman to do so and the second Nobel laureate from South Korea. A woman being the ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly Israeli operations in Lebanon, efforts to counter terror threats in Turkey and Sri Lanka, and a G-7 loan to Ukraine ...

Taliban terror leaders announced on Thursday that they have opened an investigation into multiple reports of Iranian border guards opening fire on a crowd of hundreds of Afghans who had ...