Photo courtesy of Akintunde Akinleye 2011 @Photoshtab The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has released an urgent statement today, 28 February 2017, warning about the dire situation in Ogoniland. According to Fegalo Nsuke, MOSOP’s Publicity Secretary, the state-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) is negotiating a re-entry into the region where efforts to...
Photo courtesy of Akintunde Akinleye 2011 @Photoshtab The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has released an urgent statement today, 28 February 2017, warning about the dire situation...
Photo courtesy of Youth Ki Awaaz According to Dr. Mizanur Rahman, the “human rights situation of indigenous peoples [in Bangladesh] is becoming worse day by day”. Dr. Rahman was among those...
Photo courtesy of dynamosquito @flickr.com In the wake of the recent protests against the Iranian Government’s neglect of cultural, economic and personal freedoms of its Ahwazi Arab population,...
Photo courtesy of Alice Daniel @KQED News While conflicted about the recently-imposed ban on citizens of certain predominantly Muslim countries to enter the United States, the members of the Assyrian...
Photo courtesy of Giorgio Montersino @flickr.com Contemptuous of International Mother Language Day, on 21 February 2017, an Iranian Islamic tribunal sentenced four Southern Azerbaijani language advocates...
Photo courtesy of Beluchistan @flickr.com An unnamed high-ranking member of Zabol University’s Faculty of Science will be imprisoned for four years and has been additionally sentenced to a corporal...
Photo courtesy of Getty Images. China is rolling out numerous decrees and measures targeting Uyghurs in the province of Xinjiang, from GPS tracking to financial incentives to denounce...
On Tuesday 21 February 2017, the political leader of the Tibetan people Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay opened the first “Women’s Empowerment Conference” in Dharamshala. The event’s...
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